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Problem with a closure and the return value

Hi,

i want to do something like that:

this.xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = return (function () {
if (myRequest.readyState === 4) {
return myRequest.responseText;
}
});

But i just get an Syntax error. How else could i return the responseText?

Greetings
Jul 23 '05 #1
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Börni wrote:

i want to do something like that:

this.xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = return (function () {
if (myRequest.readyState === 4) {
return myRequest.responseText;
}
});

But i just get an Syntax error. How else could i return the responseText?


Well with event based programming you can't return a value from the
onreadystatechange event handler, you need to somehow set that up
differently, the onreadystatechange event handler could call a function
and pass the responseText to it.
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
Jul 23 '05 #2
Martin Honnen wrote:

Well with event based programming you can't return a value from the
onreadystatechange event handler, you need to somehow set that up
differently, the onreadystatechange event handler could call a function
and pass the responseText to it.


Ok, thanx.

You are a real quick guy ;-)
Jul 23 '05 #3

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