coll and javascript?

as far as I can tell (I'd love to be wrong!!), you can't access coll contents directly in javascript. It would be cool if you had a coll named "mycoll" and then in javascript treat the coll like an array:
var myvar = mycoll[0];
to get the coll contents at index 0.

However, you can create a Global object to substitute for named coll. In someways, it's a bit more convenient.
Here's an kinda odd example that demonstrates creating a couple of different Arrays from incoming lists, then recalling that data elsewhere.

----makearrays1.js-----

/*
creates 2 different arrays from an incoming list. one is recalled by name, the other by symbol
*/

myglobal = new Global("data");
myglobal.array1 = new Array();
myglobal.array2 = new Array();
//initializes a couple of arrays in this Global object.
var index = 0;

function anything(){ //add items to arrays using a list input

    var a = arrayfromargs(arguments);
    myglobal.array1[messagename] = a;
    myglobal.array2[index] = messagename;
    post("list:",myglobal.array1[messagename],"n")
    post("list header:",myglobal.array2[index],"n")
    index++;    
}

------------end makearrays1.js------------

------makearrays2.js----------

/*
recall array items that are made in makearrays1.js
*/

function anything(){
    outlet(0,myglobal.array1[messagename]);
}

function msg_int(v){    
    outlet(0,myglobal.array2[v]);
}

------------end makearrays2.js---------

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