Subj : Re: js_GetArgument
To   : itaj sherman <myngs@hotmail.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon Jun 02 2003 11:20 am

> and it changes the behaviour of function paremeters inside with statements
> as follows. it will not find the actual passed value anymore.
> 
> function MyFunc( par )
> {
>     with( MyFunc ) {
>         y = par;
>     }
> }
> 
> why is it so?

See ECMA-262 Edition 3 (http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/E262-3.pdf), 
15.3.5 in particular.

/be

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