Strange thing with "this" pointer

[piotr.korzeniewski]

I'm really confused with this one, first please take a look at code
below:

function Class(obj)
{
if(!obj) obj = new Object();

obj.Extend = function(obj) {
this.__parent__ = new Object();

for(p in this) {
this.__parent__[p] = this[p];
}

for(p in obj) {
this[p] = obj[p];
}

return this;
}

return obj;
}

function A()
{
return Class({ name : "Class A" })
}

function B()
{
return A().Extend({ name : "Class B" });
}

function C()
{
return B().Extend({ name : "Class C" });
}

var a = A();
var b = B();
var c = C();

alert(b.__parent__.name);

Alright, this code is quite simple but one thing is really confusing -
it should alert "Class A" and it does in Internet Explorer and Opera,
but strangly in Firefox it alerts "Class B".. But what's even more
confusing - if I remove line "var c = C()", Firefox magically alerts
"Class A". What in the world has line "var c = C()" to do with "var b
= B()" ? The only thing that comes to my mind is this part of code:

[...]
this.__parent__ = new Object();

for(p in this) {
this.__parent__[p] = this[p];
}
[...]

But why does it works well in Internet Explorer and Opera? It doesn't
make any sense..

Thanks for any help!

[Richard Cornford]

<pi****************@gmail.comwrote:

I'm really confused with this one, first please take a look at code
below:

function Class(obj)
{
if(!obj) obj = new Object();

obj.Extend = function(obj) {
this.__parent__ = new Object();

<snip>

Alright, this code is quite simple but one thing is really confusing -
it should alert "Class A" and it does in Internet Explorer and Opera,
but strangly in Firefox it alerts "Class B".

<snip>

Objects in JavaScript(tm) have a non-standard extension property called
"__parent__", which is probably read only. Your use of that name in your
code is probably causing a naming collision and unexpected results in
browsers suing JavaScript(tm).

Richard.