What do you call a set of Javascript closures that share a common context?
- by Ed Stauff
I've been trying to learn closures (in Javascript), which kind of hurts my brain after way too many years with C# and C++. I think I now have a basic understanding, but one thing bothers me: I've visited lots of websites in this Quest for Knowledge, and nowhere have I seen a word (or even a simple two-word phrase) that means "a set of Javascript closures that share a common execution context". For example:
function CreateThingy (name, initialValue)
{
var myName = name;
var myValue = initialValue;
var retObj = new Object;
retObj.getName = function() { return myName; }
retObj.getValue = function() { return myValue; }
retObj.setValue = function(newValue) { myValue = newValue; }
return retObj;
};
From what I've read, this seems to be one common way of implementing data hiding. The value returned by CreateThingy is, of course, an object, but what would you call the set of functions which are properties of that object? Each one is a closure, but I'd like a name I can used to describe (and think about) all of them together as one conceptual entity, and I'd rather use a commonly accepted name than make one up.
Thanks!
-- Ed
