Going further with JavaScript and the DOM

One of the main things that really blows programmers’ minds when they really see the power of it is a topic called ‘closures’ or ‘lambda functions’ or ‘anonymous subroutines’.

I decided to edit the previous post’s code to use closures, to get the hang of this technique in JavaScript. It makes your code a lot more flexible as I think the simple example below demonstrates.

For the code, look after the jump…

• Ajax
• Javascript
• Functional_programming

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