Subj : Re: Calling a function before it's declared
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brook Monroe
Date : Wed Nov 24 2004 11:47 am

Martin Honnen wrote:

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> Brook Monroe wrote:
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>> Declaration order isn't critical. Calling functions that haven't been 
>> defined yet will work because the call resolution occurs at run-time, 
>> not compile time.
> 
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> You can call a function before its declaration as program execution is 
> defined to be a two pass execution where the first pass goes through the 
> program and executes all function declarations and then the second pass 
> executes the global statements (e.g function calls) in source order.
> 
Same difference.  Although that doesn't answer the question of why 
JS_CompileFile() (which, according to that explanation, would "execute" 
the function declarations) doesn't allow direct function calls through 
JS_CallFunctionName() without going through JS_EvaluateScript() first.

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