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On 25/12/2013 1:38 pm, Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 7:04:35 PM UTC-6, RobG wrote:
>> It seems that for an inline listener, the attributes of the DOM element
>> its attached to are included as variables on a kind of variable object
>> inserted as the first object on the listener's scope chain (like the
>> behaviour of _with_), e.g.
[...]
>> Does anyone know the history of this feature? It seems little used and
>> rarely documented, I know PointedEars has looked into it in the past but
>> I can't find references.
>
> Thomas, Brendan Eich, and myself discussed this on Twitter not long ago:
>
> https://twitter.com/mlhaufe/status/405024792627007488

Thanks, your link lead me to eventually find a Thomas post on StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9158238/why-js-function-name-conflicts-with-element-id


-- 
Rob