On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Kam Kasravi wrote:
> How reasonable would it be to treat 'this' in a similar way that the
> prototype chain is referenced when resolving identifiers? I realize there
> would be ambiguity for like named identifiers but that problem exists now...
> In Allen's first example this.handleClick(this,e) would not be resolved with
> it's implicit binding to elem, so 'this' would be bound lexically and the
> code would just work. The second 'this' would of course default to the
> implicit bindin
Other languages have tried to integrate inheritance based binding with lexical
binding. See f http://dyla2007.unibe.ch/?download=dyla07-Gilad.pdf and
http://bracha.org/newspeak-modules.pdf for one example and additional
references.
There are some complications to this approach and it seems to me that it is
unlikely to be something that could be retrofitted in JavaScript.
Allen
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