On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:15 AM, David Herman <dher...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> d) At runtime, a function invoked as a non-method gets a dynamic
> ReferenceError if it tries to refer to |this|. This would just be kind of
> obnoxious, I think, since if the function wants to test whether it's been
> called as a non-method it has to do something like
>
> let nonMethod = false;
> try { eval("this") } catch (e) { nonMethod = true }
>
There's also more-obnoxious (e), where any function that includes a
reference to |this| produces a ReferenceError immediately when
invoked, instead of when (or if) it refers to |this|. That's what I
thought Axel was suggesting.
--
sam th
sa...@ccs.neu.edu
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