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Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter?

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Robert K Quinlivan wrote:

[...]

> There's eval, but eval is bad. Very bad. Possibly the worst feature of
> any programming language is the ability to execute totally arbitrary
> code.
> 
> Do this instead:
> 
> var zebra = {};
> 
> function makeup(x) {
> zebra[x] = document.title;
> }
> 
> makeup('stripes');
> 
> Basically, don't do what you were planning to do. It violates several
> principles of good program design.

The partial variable (or object) name with the empty curly braces and 
function variable name completion works great!

As you say, I guess it's better than using eval.

Thanks for this tip.

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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