var Foo = 'hello';
alert(Foo);

then?
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simon

function bum() {
static var bumCount = 0;
bumCount++;
alert('bum() has run ' + bumCount + ' times);
}

To get round it I can define bumCount with wider scope but it's a bit messy.

If Javascript doesn't support statics there must be a good reason..

... ie you create a 'bare block' {} around the subroutine to constrain the scope of $bumCount and ensure that it only gets initialised to 0 the first time the program is run, not for every invocation of the subroutine.
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simon