Comments on: JavaScript: Calling the unnamed

by: Stoyan

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:34:35 +0000

True, can't think of any purpose. Apart from job security by writing unmaintainable code

Here's another one from the "this is not a syntax error" department:

alert("test"[1])

And another one: http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=284

by: steve

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:53:09 +0000

Yeah, since the [] square brackets allow you to access any "key" member of the object, any unique key works… including [""] empty string, even [null] works, as does [true] and [false].

Now, if there were only some real useful purpose for this… hmmm

by: qureyoon

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:18:44 +0000

"Reminds me of the Wizard of Earthsea a little bit where you had to know the true names of things in order to do the wizardry."

or as in Eragon too

nice article btw ^^