What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

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re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

Bertrand Le Roy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:38:56 GMT

Joel: we still support Safari 2 and will do so at least until Safari 3 has been released in its final version and has reasonable adoption.

I'll update the post though. Thanks for the heads up.

re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

Joel — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:34:17 GMT

Hey Bertrand,

This blog entry was from a long while ago and since then it looks like Safari (3 Beta Windows) supports the inline naming of functions. I'm running a couple of tests now and seeing it perform correctly (or at least not crap out).

Of course there's always backwards compatibility to worry about...

Just an FYI.

re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

Bertrand Le Roy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:24:47 GMT

Kori: typically, you'd have the following release code for the above example:

Foo.Bar=function(){Foo.Bar.initializeBase(this);}Foo.Bar.prototype={baz:function(){/*Do something*/}}Foo.Bar.registerClass('Foo.Bar');

In other words, the $ names are compeltely absent from the release scripts. Does this help?

re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

Kori Francis — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:07:12 GMT

Can you do up a small sample of how this $ method should be used for debug scripts and not for production scripts?

re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

Curious George — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:33:59 GMT

Thx!

Is there a public function that is available for validating parameters? If not, was it left off b/c the method's signature might change in the future and you guys didn't want to risk a breaking change? It seems that it's a very valuable feature that JavaScript lacks (being argument agnostic) and would compliment the framework nicely.

re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

kevindente — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:15:56 GMT

Perhaps this bit of guidance could be added to the AJAX documentation at some point.

re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

Bertrand Le Roy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:52:42 GMT

George: yes, it is private/internal, but you wouldn't be the only one to use it. You have to know that being private, there is a small chance that it could change in the future. So, at your own risk...

re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

Curious George — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:09:29 GMT

Kinda off topic...

Is it not the case that functions prefaces with "_" are by convention private methods? I could be completely off here, but if so, how can we use "Function._validateParams(...);" in our own client class libraries code to validate arguments as they come into our methods?

Thx!!

re: What are these Foo$Bar$baz functions in the Microsoft Ajax Library files?

Bertrand Le Roy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:15:17 GMT

Steven: Safari refuses to parse "baz: function Foo$Bar$baz()" if it's inside an object literal declaration like the prototype declaration. IIRC, it's considered a syntax error.