[removed] access variables inside anonymous function from the outside

Question

Say I have this anonymous function:

(function(window){

 var private = \'private msg\';

 function sayit() {
   alert(private) // works
 }

 document.body.on         


        

Answer 1

They aren't intended as "private" variables; that's just how closures work. You can do the same thing in Perl and Python, at the very least, and probably a great many other languages with closures and lexical scoping.

Debuggers like Firebug or Chrome Inspector can still show you the entire stack at any point (including closed-over variables), but other than that and without changing the original code, I think you're out of luck.

Perhaps if you told us your actual problem... :)