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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: Refer object within itself
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:43:17 +0100
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> Say I have this object
> 
> var foo {
>   "name":"bar"
>   "width":600
> }
> 
> and I want to add another element that references a value within the
> object itself. eg
> 
> var foo {
>   "name":"bar"
>   "width":600,
>   "height": width * 2
> }
>
> How do I reference to the object itself within the object?

AFAIK, you can't.  You may consider to employ a "constructor" function
instead:

  function makeFoo(name, width) {
      return {name: name, width: width; height: 2 * width};
  }

  makeFoo("bar", 600);

-- 
Christoph M. Becker