Problem with a closure and the return value

[Martin Honnen]

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.

 

[Börni]

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

 

[Börni]

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 ;-)