Sugar augments the existing JavaScript environment with helper methods on existing objects. From fixing broken support of standard methods, widening acceptable arguments, multi-lingual and improved regex support on strings, nice supplementary string methods like words()
, and shortcut methods to Math object methods. Additional helpers for Dates, Objects, Functions and Regex. An library for a consistentising JavaScript across different imlementations.
Tim describes another two different approaches to using the Module Pattern (a way of creating Singletons). The first example takes advantage of the natural indentation to clearly see which methods are private and which are public. The second is a curried function, a function that returns another function.