Inner functions and outer 'this' (Re: That hash symbol)

[Erik Arvidsson]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:35, Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen at wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
> Overall, I really like ^this as a narrow solution to a specific real usage problem. I'm interested in reactions and unless somebody thinks of something that seriously torpedoes it I will probably write it up as a strawman.

I like ^this.

We (Chromium/V8) discussed introducing 'self' as a a way to get the
lexically bound 'this'. The main issue we could think of was that it
might be hard for users to know when to use '^this' vs when to use
'this'.

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erik