jQuery.bind doesn't exist, jQuery.prototype.bind does (therefore .bind
is not in the context of a function).
Furthermore, I don't see how this gives the wrong impression at all;
nobody expects to be able to call arbitrary methods on a jQuery object
just because a function exists on some other global object like
Function, String, Date, etc.
On Jul 22, 8:11 am, aHeckman <aaron.heckm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since jQuery itself is a function, jQuery.bind gives the wrong
> impression - even though binding jQuery to anything else wouldn't work
> anyway.
>
> On Jul 21, 2:23 pm, Julian Aubourg <aubourg.jul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been watching this thread from afar and I don't really get it.
> > This is OO programming and it's quite common to have different classes
> > having methods with the same name but different semantic (obviously since,
> > again, they are different classes).
>
> > someFunction.bind() has semantic within the Function world, jQuery.bind()
> > has semantic within the jQuery world.
>
> > I mean, I wouldn't mind a .reverse() method for a string, an array or a
> > video, perfectly knowing they obviously wouldn't behave the same.
>
> > Unless a new pure Object method appears which name clashes with jQuery, I
> > see no reason to break backward compatibility to circumvent what happens to
> > be a feature in an OO programming language. Aren't we thinking a little
> > "Pascal" here? ;)
>
> > 2009/7/14 aHeckman <aaron.heckm...@gmail.com>
>
> > > With the inclusion of Function.prototype.bind in ECMAscript 5, I'd
> > > like to open discussion around possibly modifying the API around bind/
> > > unbinding events. I feel changing jQuery would help keep it's API
> > > cleaner. For example, the following seems dirty and will cause
> > > unnecessary confusion:
>
> > > jQuery.bind('click', someFunction.bind(this));
>
> > > Maybe listen/unlisten, watch/unwatch, or something similar would be
> > > better.
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