I rarely write Javascript, so I'm not in tune with the community, but when I have I have had no trouble passing database handles and such things around like I'm used to in every other language I work with more frequently.
It appears all this does is avoids needing to manually call close (or equivalent)? While that is a nice addition, helping to avoid the situation where you forget, why does globals become the alternative? Isn't simply calling close manually the best option at the moment?
It appears all this does is avoids needing to manually call close (or equivalent)? While that is a nice addition, helping to avoid the situation where you forget, why does globals become the alternative? Isn't simply calling close manually the best option at the moment?