Illegal invocation when executing passed function

Question

I am passing function to other function. It returns Uncaught TypeError: Illegal invocation when passing native console.log function to it. Why's that?

var functionToUse = console.log,
    parameterToUse = 'Hello World!';

function execute(logic, parameter) {
    if (parameter) {
         logic(parameter);   
    } else if (!parameter) {
         logic();   
    }
}

execute(function () { alert(1) }, false); // works fine
execute(functionToUse, parameterToUse); // Uncaught TypeError: Illegal invocation

possible duplicate of [typeerror illegal invocation on console.log.apply](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8159233/typeerror-illegal-invocation-on-console-log-apply) — Evan Trimboli, Nov 24 '13 at 12:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '13 at 13:06

You need to bind the log function to the console object when you pass it around. Otherwise the this value internally will point to window and it will result in an illegal invocation.

var functionToUse = console.log.bind(console);

This would result in an illegal invocation as well:

console.log.call(window);

Illegal invocation when executing passed function

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