Question

Code of horror:

var namespace = new function ()
{
    this.saySomething = new function( something )
    {
        console.log( something );
    };
}

namespace.saySomething( "whatever" );

This outputs “undefined” when I expected it to output “whatever”. How come? And what would the fix be? My goal is nothing more than to have a namespace where I put some helper functions.

Answer 1

You don’t need to use new before the functions. new is only used for instantiating objects, when a constructor is already defined.

Your code should look like:

var namespace = {
    saySomething: function(something) {
        console.log(something);
    }
}

namespace.saySomething("whatever");