>[Paul Prescod wrote:]
		
		Global functions are global variables in JavaScript.

		<title>test</title>
		<SCRIPT>
		function a(){
			return 5;
		}
		document.writeln( a() )

		function b(){
			return 10;
		}
		a = b 

		document.writeln( a() )
		</SCRIPT>

Tricky!  This kind of manipulation would certainly be a side effect.  So
even global functions should be authored as ?constants?, by which I mean
that the function, once defined, should not be changed.



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