Question

When I define and call a Function from within a with() statement, the function doesn’t receive the object defined in the with(). Is there a way to solve my problem?

For example, this code doesn’t work:

var testObj = { testStr: "Hello World!" };
with(testObj) {
  function testFunc(){
     alert(testStr);
  }
  testFunc();
}

Answer 1

That’s a function declaration.

Functions shouldn’t be declared in statement blocks in the first place.

An expression will work:

var testObj = { testStr: "Hello World!" };
with(testObj) {
  var testFunc  = function(){
     alert(testStr);
  }
  testFunc();
}