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Assuming we are in a directory that contains a file called
myfile.>perl -e "open(FOO,'cat myfile |')|| die 'cat failed'; while (
Now I can treat FOO just like I would any other filehandle.
I just picked up the 5th edition of David Flanagan's JavaScript, the Definitive Guide. I find it amusing that that book is the only JavaScript book officially recommended at comp.lang.javascript.
Closures are a powerful feature of JavaScript. However it's often hard to explain in a few words, just what is useful about closures. Well, here on page 131 of the Rhino book, is the recipe for a unique ID generator that doesn't require a global counter.
One thing that I personally enjoy about the Flanagan book is that he says things like "don't pollute the global namespace." :) This technique does not pollute the global namespace.
var uid = (
function(){
var id=0;
return function(){
return id++ ;
};
}
)();
//then just say:
alert(uid());
Here is the simplest example of recursion that I can think of:
(function (arr, count) {
alert[count];
if(count < (arr.length -1)) {arguments.callee (arr, ++count)}
})(['This','is','trivial!'], 0);
Why is this important?
This example might become important if I were hiring someone to work with me, and I wanted to establish quickly that they had an intermediate skill level in JavaScript. While the example is quite trivial technically, it is quite incomprehensible to the typical "Web" designer.
Of course, I would like to hire someone who is a little of both (designer and engineer), so I would also ask questions like:
Again, I think these questions are trivial for a designer to answer, but much harder for "server-side" programmers.