Assigning to 'this' because it happens that 'this' is global is no better
and perhaps worse than using undeclared variables for globals. Assignments
to global have, well, non-local consequences: they should be explicit not
context dependent.
Even if you don't agree, node has made "global" the de facto standard; lots
of code is now written with the (function(global) {...}(typeof global !==
'undefined' ? global : this)); goop. Modules avoid the smaller part of
that boilerplate but we still don't solve it all without a way to say
"global".
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Andreas Rossberg <rossb...@google.com>
wrote:
> On 5 June 2014 16:08, John Barton <johnjbar...@google.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Andreas Rossberg <rossb...@google.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4 June 2014 23:46, John Lenz <concavel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I don't personally want to write sloppy mode code, but there are
> places
> >> > you
> >> > need it (using eval to introduce new symbols into global scope).
> >>
> >> You don't necessarily need sloppy mode for that. In strict mode, you
> >> can still express it as assignment to the global object.
> >
> > This excellent solution would be much more widely adopted if the global
> > object had a standard identifier, like say "global".
>
> Hm, I'm not sure why that would be a problem. What's wrong with using
> 'this' inside those evals?
>
> /Andreas
>
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