2010 02 23 arguing with arguments

Nice arguments hackery going on here.

    (function(a,b,c) {
        print(a,b,c); // one two three
        print(arguments[0], arguments[1], arguments[2]); // one two three
        arguments[0] = "uno";
        print(a,b,c); // uno two three
        print(arguments[0], arguments[1], arguments[2]); // uno two three
        // a is magically married to arguments[0], b to arguments[1] etc
        // so one could change locally scoped variables from another scope like so:
        changeArguments(arguments);
        print(a,b,c); // I messed up your dataz
    })("one", "two", "three");
    // not cool.
    function changeArguments(args){
        args[0] = "I messed"
        args[1] = "up your";
        args[2] = "dataz";
    }

    // A more real world example:
    (function(arg1, arg2) {
        print(arg1, arg2);
        //-> uno dos
        Array.prototype.shift.apply(arguments);
        print(arg1, arg2);
        //-> dose undefined
    })('uno', 'dos');

Thanks to @deadlyicon!