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From: Frobernik <nospam@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: Difference between findPos("divThis") and findPos(divThis)
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On 16/11/2011 14:04, Scott Sauyet wrote:
> Richard Cornford wrote:
>> Scott Sauyet wrote:
>>> Denis McMahon wrote:
>>>> Minimisation is good, but the following:
>>
>>>> var a = "df";
>>>> var b = 17;
>> <snip>
>>> Another contender is this:
>>
>>> var a = "df",
>>>      b = 17;
>>
>>              ^ oops!
>>
>>>      c = [{s:'monkey',x:'male',a:3},{s:'elephant',x:'female',a:7},
>> <snip>
>>> ... .  Richard's argument against the comma are reasonable, ...
>> ;-)
>
> Perhaps I should have said "are eminently reasonable"."  :-)
>
>    -- Scott

You could squeeze more out of the available space and avoid the use of a 
var completely

Using the original example

function findPos(obj) {
     var w = obj.offsetWidth;
     var h = obj.offsetHeight;
}
findPos(divThis)

becomes :-

function findPos(obj, w, h) {
     w = obj.offsetWidth;
     h = obj.offsetHeight;
}
findPos(divThis)

another style/variant could be

function findPos(obj, name, colour, b, c) {
     name = obj.name;
     colour = obj.colour;
     b = 17;
     c = [{s:'monkey', x:'male', a:3}, {s:'elephant',x:'female',a:7}];
}
findPos({name:'df', colour:'green'})

Frobernik