Question

I feel silly asking this in such a crude way, but in Firebug I see my current object (this) and below that a line then, “object Window,” where the global namespaces seem to live (e.g., there’s a $ object, jQuery object …). I have an object I created called “g” with a function called “Update” that lives in this global namespace (again, using that term loosely).

Am I using the right terminology here? Does the jQuery object live in the “global namespace”? Furthermore, if I want to call something living here, do I just need to call, say, g.Update()? Would it be right to say these are the equivalent of what you’d call static variables in OO terminology?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If i understand the question correctly, default last scope is ‘window’, so if you didn’t declare ‘g’ anywhere else in your scope, the last place it will look in is ‘window’

Working example

g = { Update: function() {} };

function foo()
{
    g.Update();
}

Not working example:

g = { Update: function() {} };

function foo(g)
{
    g.Update();
}