$scope.$watchCollection('[item1, item2]', function(newValues, oldValues){
// do stuff here
// newValues and oldValues contain the new and respectively old value
// of the observed collection array
});
$scope.foo = 'foo';
$scope.bar = 'bar';
$scope.$watchGroup(['foo', 'bar'], function(newValues, oldValues, scope) {
// newValues array contains the current values of the watch expressions
// with the indexes matching those of the watchExpression array
// i.e.
// newValues[0] -> $scope.foo
// and
// newValues[1] -> $scope.bar
});
$scope.$watchGroup(['var1','var2'],function(newVals,oldVals){
console.log("new value of var1 = " newVals[0]);
console.log("new value of var2 = " newVals[1]);
console.log("old value of var1 = " oldVals[0]);
console.log("old value of var2 = " oldVals[1]);
});