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Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter?

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RobG wrote:

[...]

> 
> You seem to need a plain Object. Variables are really just properties
> of a local variable object, you can likely emulate what you want using
> an object:
> 
>   function makeup(s) {
>     var localVars = {};
>     localVars[s] = whatever;
>   }
> 
> Now you can pass around localVars to other functions, store it,
> serialise it, add, delete, modify properties and values, whatever.
> 
> Of course if you are depending on finding these runtime-defined
> variables on the scope chain, an object won't do the job. But you may
> be able to substitute inheritance for scope.

Thanks for the above, it's put me on the right track....

Tuxedo

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Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-12 17:20 +0100
  Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2012-02-12 17:44 +0100
    Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-12 19:26 +0100
      Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-12 21:47 +0100
  Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-02-12 18:42 -0800
    Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-13 18:28 +0100
  Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Robert K Quinlivan <rquinlivan@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 21:02 -0800
    Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-14 22:55 +0100

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