hi,
sorry if this is obvious, i searched dcs and forums but couldn’t find an answer.
i have a basic patcher below, basically turns on/off a debug variable in the js script. if the function is called setdebug, it works ok, but if the function is called debug, it doesn’t work at all. indeed, when i call a function named debug from another one (not i the script below) it says "debug is not defined". i’m not a javascript expert but my search of the web didn’t indicate debug() was a reserved function or keyword.
can anyone help? cheers,,

//the patch

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//the javascript (debugtest.js)
//inlets and outlets

inlets = 2;

outlets = 1;
var dbg=1;
//if renamed to debug() it stops working
function setdebug(a)

{

    dbg=arguments[0];

    if(a) {

        post("debug on n")

    } else {

        post("debug off n")

    }

}