How to escape implicit 'with (this)' of a method body

[Brendan Eich]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Michael Haufe wrote:
>> function foo () { return 'global'; }
>>
>> class bar {
>>    function foo () { return 'local'; }
>>
>>    function zot () {
>>      // How can I call the global foo from here?
>>      without (this) { foo(); }
>>    }
>> }
>
> It's the same as if you lambda-coded the above (here shown in JS1.8  
> [Firefox 3], note the expression closures):
>
> function bar() {
>   function foo() 'local';
>   function zot() global.foo();

+  return {foo: foo, zot: zot};

> }
> function foo() 'global';
>
> This example uses ES4's global synonym for the global object, but  
> you could capture this in a global var at top level:
>
> var global = this;
> print(new bar().zot()); // print 'global'
>
> in ES3 or JS1.8 to get the same effect.

/be
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