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Re: Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites

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From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Date 2011-11-03 20:17 +0100
Subject Re: Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Dom Bannon wrote:
>> Dumb question #1: what exactly is 'window'?
> 
> It is a host-defined property of the ECMAScript Global Object which value
> is a reference to an object that represents the view of the document that
> contains the script code.

… or includes it with a `script' element that has a `src' attribute 
specified.


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Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites Dom Bannon <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-11-03 18:07 +0000
  Re: Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-03 20:11 +0100
    Re: Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-03 20:17 +0100
    Re: Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites Dom Bannon <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-11-03 20:07 +0000
      Re: Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-03 22:33 +0100
        Re: Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 19:32 -0700
  Re: Newbie Q's: references, scopes, overwrites Elegie <elegie@anonymous.invalid> - 2011-11-03 20:54 +0100

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