Question

Notice in the example below that both create and update are identical. I believe it is possible to have update just be an alias to create‘s code without needing to write it out a second time.

this.VAROPS = {
    // variable operations
    create:     function(id, value) { variables[id] = value; }
,   delete:     function(id)        { delete variables[id]; }
,   update:     function(id, value) { variables[id] = value; }
};

Answer 1

You can, and you have two options:

1. Create an actual named function (which might be a local reference inside your scope) and assign it to both properties

   function foo() {}
   var bar = {
       baz: foo,
       xyzzy: foo
   }
   

2. Assign the first property’s value to the second property outside of the object-literal definition

   var foo = {
       bar: function() {}
   }
   foo.baz = foo.bar;