ES5 riddle -- this binding in accessors accessed as global vars

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

According to the spec. it should alert the global object:
The reference to foo resolves to a Reference to an object environment record.  When getValue is called on  that reference it goes through step 5.a and calls GetBindingValue on the env record.  GetBindingValue does a [[Get]] on the global object.  [[Get]] internally retrieves an accessor property and does a call to the [[Get]] function passing the global objet as the this value.

Allen


On May 2, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:

> According to the ES5 spec, should the following program alert the global object or undefined? Why?
> 
>     Object.defineProperty(this, 'foo', {get:function(){"use strict"; return this;}});
>     alert((function(){"use strict"; return foo;})());
> 
> 
> -- 
>     Cheers,
>     --MarkM
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