Wildcards in global list (regex or simple *)

[davebalmer]

I've been experimenting with C-style "namespacing" in a couple of my frameworks, in particular, Jo. For example: joView, joContainer, joControl are all global widget classes. Since they are global, I do not need to specify var = joView, and so I prefer to save a good chunk of unzipped file size (it's a small framework).

I can solve this with the global flag, and that's cool, but I'd like to be able to specify something like:

/*jshint */
/*global jo*:true */

[Raynos]

Matching a wildcard * could be implemented by refactoring out checks to predefined[key] === bool to an isPredefined(key) === bool check. Where

function() isPredefined(key) {
     if (typeof predefined[key] === "boolean") {
          return predefined[key];
     } else {
          var bool;
          for (var i = 1;i <= key.length; i++) {
               bool = predefined[key.slice(0,i) + "*"];
               if (typeof  bool === "boolean") {
                    return bool;
               }
          }
     }
     return false;
}

Refactoring isPredefined to implement regex checking is also possible but provides a lot of danger for false positives (This would also require a regex global option)