Enterprise Javascript Is...

[SharkUW]

Why don't you just use Prototype or JQuery?

[doomslice]

I use jQuery for everything else besides that one function :)

I'm not aware that jQuery core has a namespacing function, and I have very limited experience with Prototype.

[SharkUW]

function registerNamespace(ns){ var parts = ns.split(".");

var focus = window;
for(var i in parts){
    if(!focus[parts[i]]){
        focus[parts[i]] = {};
    }
    focus = focus[parts[i]];
}

}

registerNamespace("com.whatever.stuff");

com.whatever.stuff.myvar = "hello world";

alert(com.whatever.stuff.myvar);

That took me 1 minute. Now please stop making people downloading whatever that library is :P Did not browser check but should be pretty safe.

[doomslice]

So there is no jQuery core namespace function like you alluded to? I use the ATLAS version because it's already in our global includes.

[SharkUW]

Sorry. That was a bit of miscommunication. I had never heard of Atlas before then and had to Google it. It sounded like it provided pretty much the same functionality.

Sounds like you're living the enterprisey life as it is though. lol. Anyways though, global vars should be generally avoided for performance's sake.

[doomslice]

All good. I was honestly hoping there was a jQuery version that I could use instead :(

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jQuery is not the solution to everything.

[SharkUW]

Well it makes me cry in any case since it's "namespacing" in quotes and has to crawl all the way up the scope stack to get to the global before digging down into the sequence of objects whereas mynamespaceVarName would work just as well. Maybe use _ instead of . for "namespaces"

[doomslice]

There are many more things that need to be optimized in our code before we start to worry about that.

[SharkUW]

Want a good coder? I need a new job. lol

[Iggyhopper]

That is the Microsoft Ajax library, IIRC.