Function declarations with lexical `this`?

Brendan Eich brendan at mozilla.com
Tue Jun 25 13:26:21 PDT 2013


Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
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> On Jun 24, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:
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>> Given that generators use the `this` that the function would have (at 
>> least that’s how I read the spec – `this` is the global object for a 
>> non-strict generator function, `undefined` for a strict generator 
>> function, the receiver of the method invocation for a generator 
>> method), a generator arrow function would even be useful: a generator 
>> with lexical `this`.
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> see https://bugs.ecmascript.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489

Whew -- glad that ended up on the right page. :->

On generator arrows, I say YAGNI. Anyway, as Mark said: not for ES6.

/be

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