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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: Overflow, integers and strings
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Evertjan. wrote:

> 'this' works:

Not necessarily:

    function test() {

      var a = [1], b = [2];

      function arraySwap(x,y) {
        var tempArrName = this[y];
        this[y] = this[x];
        this[x] = tempArrName;
      }

      console.log(a, b);
      arraySwap(a, b);
      console.log(a, b);
    }

-- 
Christoph M. Becker