[e-lang] Naming convention for variable holding an eventual reference

[Tyler Close]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Q.post(drum, 'bang', [ 1 ])
>
> From the perspective of a newbie looking at code which uses that
> style, it sure uses an awful lot of "Q.fn(" everywhere which looks to
> make the code less readable (if perhaps more robust in other ways).
> Not that I have a constructive alternative to offer.

Ya, that bothers me too. It can be made a little better by adding the
following preamble to your Javascript file:

var post = Q.post;
var get = Q.get;
var when = Q.when;

The code then becomes:

var page = Q.connect(window.location.toString())
var drum = post(page, 'subject', [])
var hits = get(drum, 'hits')

post(drum, 'bang', [ 1 ])

when(get(drum, 'hits'), function (value) {
  print(value);
}, function (reason) {
  print('rejected: ' + reason);
})

hits = get(post(drum, 'bang', [ 3 ]), 'hits')

Just removing most of the capital Q's, seems to be a lot less
distracting. I suspect this can't be the default though, because
adding lots of variables to the global Javascript scope is frowned
upon.

--Tyler