Scoping anonymous functions
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
This is obviously a no-brainer in that knowing something like this works in JavaScript, but it never really occurred to me to even do such a thing until today. Take the following example which ‘calls’ the anonymous function within a unique scope:
Scoping anonymous funcitons
var o = 'hello world';
(function() {
alert(this);
}).call(o);It seems ridiculous (in a good way), but it works!
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