for own(...) loop (spin-off from Re: for..in, hasOwnProperty(), and inheritance)

[Brendan Eich]

On Nov 9, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:

> Do block-lamdbas count as a fix for the dynamic this problem?

Definitely.


> Or are there other plans to get it solved? I would still love to see that happen, it’s a remarkably subtle source of errors. Could functions adopt the block-lambda semantics of picking up the `this` of the surrounding scope when not invoked as methods? It seems like that could work in strict mode where no one expects `this` to have a value.

No, if you call such functions via object.method() references then this binds to object. You can't break such compatibility only at runtime, and only some of the time.

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