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

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
<allen at wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
>
> JavaScript up to this point seems to have done a pretty good job of balancing the OO and functional perspective within the language. However, I think removing the specialness of "this" and the implicit this parameter may be a step too far that breaks that balance.

I disagree with the idea that this is changing the balance.  Brendan
has responded at length about the proposals, but I wasn't talking at
all about removing the distinguished first argument.  For example:

function f(mythis | x, y) { ... }

is very much in the OO tradition of distinguishing the receiver --
it's just using lexical scope for disambiguation.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu