Syntactic sugar that good developers use to avoid a maintenance clusterfuck
and because it's nice to do things well
(, Tue 21 Aug 2012, 20:16, Reply)
Nah. They just help you write less code.
It doesn't make any real difference to your maintenance. Once you need to do anything complex in the closure, you're better of splitting it out into a proper function anyway.
JavaScript can be used well, of course it can; but it's a lot like C or C++: it takes a lot of discipline to use well. And the end result will still perform like a dog's breakfast.
(, Tue 21 Aug 2012, 20:28, Reply)