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		euroclydon on Jan 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What the Heck is Shadow DOM? The ability to hide stuff sort of takes the "script" out of Javascript.

sid0 on Jan 15, 2011 [–]

What do you mean by that? A closure like

    function foo() {
      var x = 0;
      return function () { return x++; }
    }

and the equivalent in Python/Ruby/any language with closures hides x even better than a private member in Java would.

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