Re: JavaScript closures article

Manish Tomar wrote:
Hi,

Please check this small article on my experience on closures in
JavaScript.
http://manishtomar.blogspot.com/2007/04/javascripts-power-of-closure.html
It gives a simple explanation of closures. Do post any comments if you
like it.

Um, personally, I found this article poorly-worded, not well written and *very* unprofessional. I doubt many will take this article seriously.

Not to mention your code clutters the global namespace (the Window object). And I could be wrong, but I see a memory leak in the making. Not by the circular reference, but by nesting closures. (See MDC link below.) Also, I am quite certain that function (createFuncs) could be written more simply and possibly more efficiently. See:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript#Closures

I will continue to use these professionally written documents on closures (and memory leakage):

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Functions#Nested_functions_and_closures
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript#Memory_leaks
http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/closures.html
http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/LeakPatterns.asp

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