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Strictly speaking from the POV of "I'm an axe wielding mad-man that has the honor of taking over your code because you've moved on to bigger and better things; yet I know where you live". I really hope this isn't normal lol. Using it inside of a plug-in which you maintain, acceptable. Writing business-logic code, please hold while I sharpen my axe :)

MonkeyZeus
– MonkeyZeus

2016-03-11 22:15:47 +00:00
Commented Mar 11, 2016 at 22:15
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@MonkeyZeus haha, yes! Added a disclaimer for coders of the future that can find this from Google

jehna1
– jehna1

2016-03-11 22:23:53 +00:00
Commented Mar 11, 2016 at 22:23
Actually this disclaimer is too harsh. There are legitimate use cases for "getter as a function call". In fact it's used extensively in a very successful library. (would you like a hint?? :-)

Amit
– Amit

2016-03-12 23:48:34 +00:00
Commented Mar 12, 2016 at 23:48
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Note that __defineGetter__ is deprecated. Use Object.defineProperty instead.

Felix Kling
– Felix Kling

2016-03-13 19:33:42 +00:00
Commented Mar 13, 2016 at 19:33
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@MonkeyZeus - as I explicitly wrote in the comment - this style of function invocation is being used, extensively & intentionally, in a very successful public library as the API itself, not internally.

Amit
– Amit

2016-03-14 23:00:15 +00:00
Commented Mar 14, 2016 at 23:00

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