On class literals possibly not making it into ECMAScript.next

[Axel Rauschmayer]

When I see singleton objects in JavaScript, I mostly consider them poor man’s modules (including the Object.* methods).

You could write a jQuery module that exports the “everything else” functions and the identifiers $ and jQuery for the DOM stuff.

On Nov 5, 2011, at 0:28 , Rick Waldron wrote:

> No, not at all. It's a conscious design decision that results in only introducing one new property to the global object (two if you count the shorthand reference to $)

>> This pattern makes is _very_ easy for newer developers/adopters to understand the division of functionality:
>> 
>> - DOM methods here: jQuery().foo()
>> - Everything else here: jQuery.bar()

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