Overriding a JavaScript function while referencing the original

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You could do something like this:

var a = (function() {
    var original_a = a;

    if (condition) {
        return function() {
            new_code();
            original_a();
        }
    } else {
        return function() {
            original_a();
            other_new_code();
        }
    }
})();

Declaring original_a inside an anonymous function keeps it from cluttering the global namespace, but it’s available in the inner functions.

Like Nerdmaster mentioned in the comments, be sure to include the () at the end. You want to call the outer function and store the result (one of the two inner functions) in a, not store the outer function itself in a.

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