2007/12/21, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On 12/20/07, Ian Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks bob, I guess it's been about 8 years. Good to talk to you again.
>
> High school feels a lot longer ago than that :)


Indeed.

Welcome to JavaScript.


I feel a my eyes twitching when I go to sleep.

That's pretty much what bind does, but Function.prototype.call and
> Function.prototype.apply let you jigger "this" for a given call.
>
foo.bar(a, b) is the same as foo.bar.apply(foo, [a, b]) or
> foo.bar.call(foo, a, b).


Thank goodness it's there.

> works. It's cute how bind returns a function that calls your function but
> > goes out and finds the "this" for you first. Pretty useful hack.
>
> Well you give it 'this' as the second argument, it doesn't do all that
> much magic.


Only if you're kind enough to give it. I just happen to be a nice guy.

Anywho, thanks for the insight.

-- 
Ian Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ianlewis.org

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