Object methods assigned to variables or function arguments fail when invoked

Question

I\'m learning javascript right now, seems like beautiful functional language to me, it is wonderful move from PHP, I should have done this earlier. Although, I cannot figure

Answer 1

Your reference to the method has lost its knowledge of what it was a method of. This isn't so much good practice as just the way JS works.

You can do:

var v1 = /[abc]/;
v1.test('a');    

If you must encapsulate the test method, then you could do:

var v1 = function(str){
    return /[abc]/.test(str);
};
v1('a');