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tcorral / Design-Patterns-in-Javascript

Design Patterns applied to Javascript code.
http://tcorral.github.com/Design-Patterns-in-Javascript/
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_**, for example, _download. is _ be vanilla js syntax? what call? #11

Closed anlexN closed 6 years ago

tcorral commented 6 years ago

Hi, @anlexN.

Could you provide more information about what's the issue, please?

anlexN commented 6 years ago

I mean _ prefix is a syntax?

tcorral commented 6 years ago

It's just a way to inform other developers that these methods, functions or attributes are supposed to be kept private. Even JsDoc uses this naming convention to add the comments.

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You can find also another example in this url: http://2ality.com/2016/01/private-data-classes.html#marking-private-properties-via-a-naming-convention