Notes on software and the ideas behind it

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I’m Fred Yang. I write about software—how it works, why it behaves the way it does, and the ideas that make code easier to reason about.

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the internal of $.end() method

jQuery methods that alter the original jQuery wrapper set selected are considered to be destructive.The reason being that they do not maintain the original state of the wrapper set. Not to worry;nothing is really...
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$.extend

extend function is used to extend jQuery object. We can use it to do extend normal object, jQuery utility and jQuery method.
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$(fn)

In jQuery, $(fn) is a short cut to $.fn.ready(fn). First you call the $.fn.ready(fn), in the function it call jQuery.bindReady() first, then add the fn to a readyList. In the jQuery.bindReady() function, it try...
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jQuery is an array like object

In javascript, array is object, so there are lots benefit to use array object, like the length, index, slice. jQuery is a collection of element, so use it as an array is very convenient....
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arguments.callee

var sum = function(i) { if (i == 1) { return i; } else { return i + arguments.callee(i-1); } } alert(sum(3)); ​
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