> That would be considered an abuse of eval by most, bracket notation is > a much more appropriate solution.
You're quite right, I was thinking the general case of turning text into executable code at runtime, but the OP's question was specifically about object names -- the other responses were definitely more on-target! -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com On Oct 14, 3:23 am, RobG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 13, 5:24 pm, "T.J. Crowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > JavaScript provides the eval() function for this. > > That would be considered an abuse of eval by most, bracket notation is > a much more appropriate solution. > > <URL:http://www.jibbering.com/faq/#propertyAccessAgain> > > All objects can be referenced as a property of some other object > except for the global object (which is essentially the window object > in browsers). > > You can get a reference to the global object by assigning this to a > global variable in the global scope at the very start of a script as > follows: > > var _global = this; > > or from anywhere using: > > var _global = (function() { return this})(); > > and then: > > _global['someString'] > > will refer to the global property 'someString' (essentially > window['someString']). > > -- > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
