[Proto-Scripty] Re: using "with" statement

2010-05-04 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, > my question is simple : isn't there a way do define the class member > functions in such a way > that the scope (this) will refer to the object instance ? `this` is never scope in Javascript (unless you use `with`, which simulates scope to an extent). It's just an object reference. If you w

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Re: using "with" statement

2010-04-30 Thread Ran Berenfeld
Thanks a lot for your reply T.J I was partially familiar with this mechanism, and now I know more :) anyway, let me re-phrase my question we all know that an event received on a DOM element (i.e button onclick event for example) will have the "this" equals to the DOM element my question is simple

[Proto-Scripty] Re: using "with" statement

2010-04-29 Thread T.J. Crowder
Hi, > is there a way that I can get rid of all these usages of "this" No. `this` is different in Javascript than in some other languages with the same keyword, in several ways. One of these is that unqualified references like your _div (without anything in front of it) are not automatically resol