Is this a safe way to reference objects in JavaScript?
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If I were to define two objects myDataStore and myDrawer something like this:
var myDataStore = function(myObjectRef) {
    this.myInternalObject = myObjectRef;
};
var myDrawer = function(myObjRef) {
    this.myInternalObject = myObjectRef;
};
And if I were to create an object like so:
(function(){
  var myObject = window.myObject = function(){
      this.dataStore = new myDataStore(this);
      this.drawer = new myDrawer(this);
  }
 })();
Then myObject.dataStore.myInternalObject, and myObject.drawer.myInternalObject, would simply be pointers back to the original 'myObject' - not taking up any additional memory in the browser. Yes?
I am interested in implementing techniques like this - as it makes it easy for objects to communicate with each other.
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