[thelist] JavaScript pointers

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 15:19:20 CDT 2004


On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:35:28 +0200, Andreas Wahlin
<andreas.wahlin at ufl.gu.se> wrote:
> I know javascript has pointers, but is there no way to force it to use
> pointers in declarations?
> I want to use window.onload as an argument to a function, but I just get
> a call by value, not by reference.

Andreas, 

I doubt it's possible. References in javascript are limited.

A quick google turned up this:

http://javascript.about.com/library/gloss/blpassbyreference_def.htm
http://developer.irt.org/script/1590.htm

However, you might be able to do what you want with the Function() constructor:

http://academ.hvcc.edu/~kantopet/javascript/index.php?page=adv+js+functions&parent=js+functions

But I don't know how well browsers support such things.

-- 

Matt Warden
Berry Neuroscience Lab
Department of Psychology
Miami University



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