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

David-Sarah Hopwood david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk
Sat May 17 17:25:27 CDT 2008


Tyler Close wrote:
> 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;

For ADsafe compatibility, that should be:

   var post = Q.getPost();
   var get = Q.getGet();
   var when = Q.getWhen();

(ADsafe.get will not return a function.)

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood


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