I have the following piece of code:  function initValidation() {     // irrelevant code here     function validate(_block){         // code here     } }   Is there any way I can call the validate() function outside the initValidation() function? I&...

Please find my code below. My problem is that I the inner jQuery.get() doesn't get executed. Could some one help me out with this?  jQuery(document).ready(function() {     $('.error').hide();      $(".button").click(function() {...

Some of coworkers are saying that nesting functions is bad for performance and I wanted to ask about this.  Lets say I have the function:  function calculateStuff() {     function helper() {     // helper does things     }     // calculateStuff does...

Having what I thought should be a relatively easy problem to deal with being a major pain... I am trying to do:  a.b("param", function(data) {      logger.debug("a.b(" + data.toString() + ")");       if (data.err == 0)      {...

In C#, a Local Function is such:   public int MyFunction(int parameter) {      int local = 6;      return MyLocalFunction(4);       // Local Function      int MyLocalFunction(int localFunctionParameter) => 42; }   And in JavaScript, a Nested Funct...

My HTML  ng-app and ng-controller are specified in markup earlier  <div class="statusEntry" ng-repeat="statusInput in statusInputs">  <span class="userName"> a </span>                  <span  class="st...

I have been working on a number system converter recently and found this block of nested function code which made me question the use of it.  As far as I am concerned, the first code outputs the same result as the second one. So why would someone res...

How can I return value from bellow inner anonymous function.  function getDayFromCalendar() {     var db = openDatabase('Calendar', '1.0', 'myapp', 2 * 1024 * 1024);     db.transaction(function (tx) {         tx.executeSql(...

Unfortunately .bind has been giving me grief when creating more complex closures.       I am quite interested in why .bind seems to work differently once you nest functions.   For example :  function t(){     t = t.bind({}); //correctly assigns *this...

I just wanted to understand whats happening with this code, and I searched deep into the subject of nested functions and higher order, plus the return statement. But still I wanted to put an end to this doubt(unsure about two return statements in a r...