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Re: variable access

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Date	2013-05-06 01:09 +0200
Subject	Re: variable access
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> saurabh.khemka4@gmail.com wrote:
>> Suppose I have a variable declared in javascript file(1.js)
>> 
>> game = "abc";
> 
> This is _not_ a variable declaration.  A variable declaration starts with
> 
>   var
> 
> followed by the variable identifier, and an optional initialization part.
> 
> You are attempting to add a property named “game” to an object, which, by
> contrast to a variable declaration, can fail even if syntactically
> correct.
> 
> For example, if there is an element with name or ID “abc” in your
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I meant name or ID “game”, of course.  The left-hand side of the simple 
assignment specifies name of the property whose value may not be modifiable.

> document, and you are using IE/MSHTML, this assignment *will* fail because
> the global object or another object before it in the scope chain already
> has a non- writable property of that name that refers to the corresponding
> object.

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variable access saurabh.khemka4@gmail.com - 2013-05-05 03:19 -0700
  Re: variable access Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2013-05-05 13:12 +0200
    Re: variable access saurabh.khemka4@gmail.com - 2013-05-05 05:48 -0700
      Re: variable access saurabh.khemka4@gmail.com - 2013-05-05 07:44 -0700
        Re: variable access "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-05-05 17:30 +0200
      Re: variable access Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2013-05-05 19:39 +0300
      Re: variable access Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-05 19:47 +0200
        Re: variable access Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-06 01:09 +0200

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