It's a best practice to use var a = this to avoid the scope leak that you mentioned.
Cheers, -Jonathan On 12/18/07, Joel Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Also you might want to do "var a = this" so that it doesn't conflict > with any global variables. > > Thanks, Josh. That's what I suspected. As far as the "var a = > this"... is that because using "var" to declare the variable makes its > scope within the function alone, or is the "var" unnecessary? >
