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JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
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JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

by David Flanagan
October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
136 pages
2h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Arguments

Synopsis

arguments[n]
arguments.length

Description

The Arguments object is defined only within a function body, and within every function body, the local variable arguments refers to the Arguments object for that function. The Arguments object is an array whose elements are the values that were passed as arguments to the function. Element 0 is the first argument, element 1 is the second argument, and so on. All values passed as arguments become array elements of the Arguments object, whether or not those arguments are given names in the function declaration.

Properties

callee

A reference to the function that is currently executing. Useful for recursion in unnamed functions. JS 1.2; JScript 5.5; ECMA v1; only defined within a function body.

length

The number of arguments passed to the function. JS 1.1; JScript 2; ECMA v1; only defined within a function body.

See Also

Function

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