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Last word on all this Javascript crap.
Sean Burke came up with something interesting, the upshot being that
you write this in your HTML...
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/hello.js"></script>
And then you can use bootstrap() inside your code.
# hello.js
bootstrap("js/greeter.js");
function sayhello () {
greet();
}
# greeter.js
function greet () {
alert("Hello world!");
return;
}
You can poke at it here.
http://interglacial.com/temp/Bootstrapping/
Here's what Sean said on IRC while puting it together.
Apr 08 21:31:17 <TorgoX> also, if I didn't have to care about error handl
ing or gracefully dealing with shitty old browsers, I could make this a one-line
r. But as it is, it's about 25 lines or something...
Apr 08 21:32:21 <TorgoX> I did have some clever idea about a workaround f
or the lack of an @INC -- basically involving a "bundler" program that figures o
ut what-all libary functions get used, and does a sultry dance of symlink resolu
tion or something.
Apr 08 21:47:19 <TorgoX> Schwern -- I think my current modus with JavaScr
ipt is that I'm designing semi-general-purpose things, like a bootstrapper that
I can live with, without totally making my head explode by trying to catch every
case ever.
Final hate: JavaScript's been around for TEN YEARS and nobody's figured
this out yet??
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