removing the attachment to the 'this' object of the private variables

[paolocarrasco]

Hi @hshoff,
Don't you think that binding a private variable to the this object makes the variable/property be public? Although the name makes it obscured, a new team member could access to these members and change them directly. It'd be better to deny that possibility.
http://javascript.crockford.com/private.html

[paolocarrasco]

any comment about this issue? is it ok to consider private a property that could be accessed from outside?

[hshoff]

This is one of those conventions that is specific to us at Airbnb. It's true that they aren't truly private properties when attached to this. When you have a convention in place to indicate that something is a private property and messing with it can have unspecified consequences and everyone on the team honors it, we've found it can work well and is easily explained to future developers that might not be well-versed in javascript.

It just depends on how you're team wants to handle private properties. For us, we like to keep it simple like this.

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[paolocarrasco]

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[netpoetica]

@hshoff #145 (comment) major +1 on this