How to access something in the global namespace with the same name as something in a module?

Question

For example:

declare function foo(x : string, y : boolean) : string;

module Bar {
    export function foo(x : string) { return ???.foo(x, true); }
}

How can I access the global foo from anywhere inside Bar (where a raw foo reference will implicitly reference Bar.foo)?

Ryan Cavanaugh · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-03 17:28:01Z

3

There isn't a good way to do this.

Technically you could write window['foo'], but this will break in runtimes where the global object is not called window.

answered Nov 3, 2014 at 17:28

Ryan Cavanaugh

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