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copied!<p>The technical reason why those methods are hidden is twofold. </p> <p>First, when you execute a method on the Test object, "this" will be the untyped object returned at the end of the anonymous function that contains the public methods per the <a href="http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/06/12/module-pattern/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Module Pattern</a>. </p> <p>Second, the methods testOne, testTwo, and testThree aren't attached to a specific object, and exist only in the context of the anonymous function. You could attach the methods to an internal object and then expose them through a public method, but it wouldn't be quite as clean as the original pattern and it won't help if you're getting this code from a third party.</p> <p>The result would look something like this:</p> <pre><code>var Test = function() { var private = { testOne : function () {}, testTwo : function () {}, testThree : function () {} }; function getMethods() { for (i in this) { alert(i); // shows getMethods, but not private methods } for (i in private) { alert(i); // private methods } } return { getMethods : getMethods } }(); // will return ['getMethods', 'testOne', 'testTwo', 'testThree'] Test.getMethods(); </code></pre> <p><strong>edit:</strong></p> <p>Unfortunately, no. The set of local variables aren't accessible via a single, automatic keyword. </p> <p>If you remove the "var" keyword they would be attached to the global context (usually the window object), but that's the only behavior that I know of that is similar to what you're describing. There would be a lot of other properties and methods on that object if you did that, though.</p>

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