Comments on: $.later: binding jQuery plugin methods

By: Danny

Danny — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:43:42 +0000

@Ramin:
Yeah, later isn’t great. I was thinking defer might be better, which I think Prototype uses. Javascript 2 is supposed to have some syntactic sugar to make anonymous functions/code blocks more palatable, but for now we’ve got to stick to real Javascript. I think a symbol would be too confusing.
Danny

By: Ramin

Ramin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:00:33 +0000

typing out function() {} every time for an anonymous function is kind of annoying. But I think the word “later” is a bit confusing as well. Maybe use a symbol instead? Like how jQuery uses $ … maybe another symbol to represent anonymous functions? That would be cool

By: Peter Mounce

Peter Mounce — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:33:45 +0000

Ah; gotcha.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:32:44 +0000

@Peter Mounce: This is not solving a major problem. It just encapsulates the anonymous function; instead of using a callback of

function(){
  $(this).toggleClass('bold');
}

use

$.later().toggleClass('bold');

It's a matter of taste. I haven't decided myself whether to use this in real life.

By: Peter Mounce

Peter Mounce — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:26:50 +0000

I don’t get it. Can you spell out the problem this solves? It seems like I should be grokking it, but the mental leap (probably a hop…) is escaping me.

It seems like both ways use an anonymous function…? I’m clearly missing the point!