Hi All,
I ran across this entry in the YUI blog that describes a pattern for modularizing JS code to the point of having actual private members in a particular chunk of code. I'm wondering, has anyone given any thought to providing similar support for a class defined with dojo.declare?
There is already support for static members by defining functions and members in the 'statics' attribute. Might it be possible to provide a 'private' attribute as well? From the perspective of someone who'd like to use this feature, I'm thinking something along the lines of:
function() {
// initialization as usual
},
{
private: {
privateVariable: null,
privateFunction: function() {
// implementation
}
}
publicVariable: null,
publicFunction: function() {
// implementation
}
});
I've always thought that not having private members in JavaScript makes maintaining larger projects more of a hassle. Anyone can ignore an underscore character on the front of a function name, after all :) Has this feature been considered or discussed previously?
Thanks,
Peter