Function declaration question

[MikeBronner]

I've been browsing some scripts on the net lately and have come across something I haven't seem before:

var [name] =
{
    [name] : function ([parameters])
    {
        [...]
    }
}

I'm at a loss as to how this works? is this a class immediately instantiated in a variable, with all its members declared as well?

Could you point me to a resource that discusses these methods (as in ways of programming, not as in functions)? My googling didn't reveal anything.

Thanks!

Take Care,
Mike

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Douglas Crockford's reference here:

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/inheritance.html

is well-referenced, as is this article at the Rochester Instirute of Technology:

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~atk/JavaScript/manuals/jsobj/

I've used both before quite a few times. There are also JS frameworks around, such as the "Prototype" framework (not to be confused with the "prototype" keyword):

http://www.prototypejs.org/

which lets you extend classed from others, and offers lots of easy binding methods, etc.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[MikeBronner]

Thanks for your response on this topic! The link pointing to prototypejs.org is the one that helped me further. So basically this is nothing more than a collection of functions wrapped in a variable.

Take Care,
Mike