arrows and a proposed softCall

[John Tamplin]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Angus Croll wrote:
>
>> I actually agree. I included non-this methods only because reading
>> through this thread I got a  feeling that there was some consensus that
>> they be treated differently. More than happy to not do that.
>>
>
>
> You mean you still propose that (=> 42).call({}) should throw, but
> (function () { return 42; }).call({}) should not?
>
> Sorry, this isn't a principled response. There should be no difference in
> result between those two cases.
>

And the other cases where this is bound should be treated identically:

var self = this;
return function () { self....; }

return function () { this...; }.bind(this);

return => this...;

Aside from the last, these cases already are options that could be passed
to an API that expects to use this as a hidden parameter.  Why should the
last be treated differently than the other two?

I don't object to having a non-bound arrow, but aside from jQuery's (IMHO)
misuse of this, the bound-this case seems to be the most prevalent and the
least likely to confuse people.

-- 
John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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