JavaScript global variables & self-invoking anonymous functions

Question

So I\'ve been reading through Javascript - The Good Parts and one thing that Crockford points out is the use weakness of global variables in Javascript, in such a way that if yo

Answer 1

That's a perfectly legal way of doing things -- the variables inside of your function (as long as they are prefaced by var) are local to the function. It's called the module pattern, and it's very well accepted.