[jQuery] adding extension property to jCarousel

[W. Young]

I can add extension methods to the jcarousel add in such as:

jQuery.jcarousel.fn.extend({
        position: function() {
                //alert(this.first-1);
        }
});

jQuery.jcarousel.prototype.position = function() {
        //alert(this.first-1);
};

but I want to get access to the "first" property of the jcarousel.
Since I only have one item at a time visible and scroll one at a time
"first - 1" gives me the current position of the carousel.

Otherwise in several places in my code, I have to declare:

var position = carousel.first-1;

or always use carousel.first-1 which is not intuitive.