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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> BTW, how do you pass a *scope* to a method?
> 
> - pass "this" from the global scope to get a reference to it

`this' has nothing to do with scope.
 
> - use the deprecated someObject.eval in old FireFox (pre 3.0).

While it is an item for the ECMAScript Support Matrix indeed, that has 
nothing to do with passing an existing scope to *that* method as well.
 
> - In the future, Fx plans to implement closure.environment.eval("x")
> for debugging

Interesting.  URL?

> Perhaps something involving manipulation and passing of the arguments
> object...

But that also has nothing to do with (passing) scope.

Presumably we can see yet another result of cluelessness on part of the 
writers here.


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