Secret of the JavaScript Ninja 学习笔记 - 2

第三章 Functions are fundamental

3.1 What's with the functional difference?

functions are objects.

Objects具有下列属性：

1. can be created via literals
2. 可以被赋值给某个变量
3. 可以作为参数传递给functions
4. 可以作为函数的返回值
5. 可以有属性

functions作为objects具有上述所有属性。此外，funcitons具有一个其他OBJECTS没有的属性 - 它可以被invoked.

The browser event loop

FIFO queue and single-threaded.

An sort example

var values = [213, 16, 2058, 54, 10, 1965, 57, 9];
values.sort();

var values = [213, 16, 2058, 54, 10, 1965, 57, 9];
values.sort(function(value1, value2) { return value2 - value1; });

The functional difference in JavaScript allows us to create a function as a standalone entity, just as we can any other object type (java不允许你这么作。任何方法必须是某个类的一部分）, and to pass it as an argument to a nethod, just like any other object type, which can accept it as a parameter, just like any other object type,