Well in the original examples I responded to, I thought the syntax was considerably nicer, that's what I was commenting on. In the different examples (shifting

Well in the original examples I responded to, I thought the syntax was considerably nicer, that's what I was commenting on. In the different examples (shifting goalposts...) someone responded to me with, the benefit was less pronounced. In general, jQuery has absolutely horrible syntax (IMO), so I can understand someone building a library to make a few small improvements like normal assignment statements.