With the __parent__ property in Netscape, you can explicitly initialize the scope chain in your own custom functions.

Using this facility is somewhat inelegant, and since it is not portable its use is likely to be fairly restricted.

Warnings:

• It is unclear whether this property will be added to the ECMA standard. For now it is only available in Netscape.

Example code:

   // Create an object

   var myObject = { aaa:"Some text" };

   // A fragment of script to place that object into the scope chain

   myObject.__parent__ = this.__parent__;

   this.__parent__ = myObject;