I have always wondered about some of the weird scoping issues in AS2 (_root, _global, var, this, function(){ } and etc. )
Found this interesting article from 3 years ago. Honestly, it still confuses me when reading some the code in the article. However, we have to understand how the Flash player works inside out, don’t we? Check out the original article here: http://timotheegroleau.com/Flash/articles/scope_chain.htm.
