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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

by Jay L Johnston
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
276 pages
5h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding MooTools ubiquitous anonymous functions

Functions have names, but anonymous functions do not; MooTools uses them everywhere.

Note

Anonymous functions are one-time use like disposable lighters. In MooTools, we use them to one-time define a method; reusable disposable functions!

Getting ready

To define and call an anonymous function raw JavaScript wraps a function in parentheses:

(function(){document.title=location.href;alert('done');})();

Nothing is returned, and the function is not assigned to a function identifier; when the () function syntax is appended, the function self-executes.

How to do it...

MooTools' use differs slightly in that we will pass this anonymous function as an argument to a MooTool object and bind it to an identifier; ...

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