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Namespacing seems fine, but to torture the declaration syntax as shown on the site in order to get the Java-like com.domain.package.class.method() syntax is wrong. Just use underscores in the name rather than periods and use the syntax properly.

Not to mention, the next library you load will clobber the `com` variable.

That's the first example I got when loading the page, and that's exactly what I thought: for big projects namespacing seems sensible enough. So I thought the site was a collection of design patterns, rather than anti-patterns.

Left me very confused when the next example was declaring all your functions globally.

Still, two levels of namespaces are more than enough.