[TxMt] Better JavaScript functions

[Andreas Wahlin]

On Sep 18, 2005, at 18:07 , Michael Sheets wrote:

>> (var) this.functionName = function(arguments) { ... }
>>
>
> Knowing nothing of javascript... if there are parens around var you  
> didn't include them in the regex.
>
> On matching the contents of the parens you can also use a non- 
> greedy match:
>
> \\((.*?)\\)
>
> Yours of course will work fine, I just wish I'd figured out non- 
> greedy matches faster when I was learning ;)

By parens I take it you mean paranthesis? My bad, they aren't  
supposed to be there, I used them to emphasise that you can skip the  
var part and thus have either
this.functionName = function(arguments) { ... }
or
var this.functionName = function(arguments) { ... }

On a side note, again ... when do you use non-greedy matches and what  
are they good for?

Andreas