Question

Im amazed that even after all this time (jQuery has been around since 2006) we have to resort to adding a plugin or a custom function in order to implement namespaces in jQuery.

// USAGE:
// var myProject = $.namespace('com.foo.myProject');
namespace : function(){
 var o, d;
 $.each(arguments, function(i,v) {
   d = v.split(".");
   o = window[d[0]] = window[d[0]] || {};
   $.each(d.slice(1), function(i2, v2){
    o = o[v2] = o[v2] || {};
   });
 });
 return o;
},

I mean this is a tiny piece of code for a concept that gets used in most Javascript projects and frameworks (above is based on the ext js implementation):

Why isnt this part of jQuery core build? Is there a reason besides “we just havent got around to it yet”?

Answer 1

jQuery is a framework devoted to facilitating DOM manipulation. It is not an “application framework”, really. Read through the jQuery bug list to get a feel for the core philosophy.