Passing a global variable to a function

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As answered by Oriol, it doesn’t work because the variable is passed by value, so you’re not changing the “that” variable. A workaround would be to pass the variable name :

that = 0;

function test(input) {
    window[input]++;
}

test("that");

console.log(that); // 1

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