Function overloading in Javascript - Best practices

Question

What is the best way(s) to fake function overloading in Javascript?

I know it is not possible to overload functions in Javascript as in other languages. If I neede

Answer 1

There are two ways you could approach this better:

1. Pass a dictionary (associative array) if you want to leave a lot of flexibility

2. Take an object as the argument and use prototype based inheritance to add flexibility.