JavaScript: Reference a functions local scope as an object

Question

When I call a function, a local scope is erected for that call. Is there any way to directly reference that scope as an object? Just like window is a reference for the global scope object.

Example:

function test(foo){
    var bar=1
    //Now, can I access the object containing foo, bar, arguments and anything
    //else within the local scope like this:
    magicIdentifier.bar
}

Alternately, does anyone have a complete list of what is in the local scope on top of custom variables?

Background: I'm trying to get down to a way of completely shifting to global scope from within a function call, the with statement is a joke, call works a little better, but it still breaks for anything declared in function scope but not in global scope, therefore I would declare these few cases in global scope, but that requires me to know what they are. The IE function execScript makes a complete shift, but that only solves the problem for IE.

Note: To anyone loading JavaScript dynamically, setTimeout(code,1) is a simple effective hack to achieve global scope, but it will not execute immediately.

Answer 1

Certain versions of Netscape had a magic property in the arguments object that did what you're looking for. (I can't remember what it was called)

Answer 2

No, there's no way to reference the variable object of the execution context of a function (that's what that thing is called; spec section 10.3), just the limited window to it you get with arguments (which is very limited indeed). If you can elaborate on what your end goal is, I may be able to help more, but I'm afraid I didn't quite understand what you were going for...

Answer 3

You don't need a keyword to reference a variable in the local scope, because it's the scope you're in.

Answer 4

What about something like this?

<script type="text/javascript">
    var test =  {
        bar : 1,
        foo : function () {
            alert(this.bar);
        }
    }

    test.foo();
</script>