austinhyde

Observables

You don't really need a framework or fancy cutting-edge JavaScript features to do two-way data binding. Let's start basic - first and foremost, you need a way to tell when data changes. Traditionally, this is done via an Observer pattern, but a full-blown implementation of that is a little clunky for nice, lightweight JavaScript. So, if native getters/setters are out, the only mechanism we have are accessors:

var n = 5;
function getN() { return n; }
function setN(newN) { n = newN; }

console.log(getN()); // 5

setN(10);

randrews

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--- Making Lua look like Prolog:
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--- Let's use metatables for something other than emulating prototype-based OO. By making the
--- __index metamethod create values for undefined things, we can make Lua look like Prolog!
--- We create empty tables for anything starting with a capital letter, functions that populate
--- those tables for lowercase things (to assign relationships) and if a name begins with "is_"
--- then it becomes a function that queries those tables.
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