> > My question was a bit "tongue in cheek." > == 'I was trolling a little bit' :) And your troll worked :)
Pedro that ebook is great! I will definitely be sending a couple of our devs who are transitioning from PHP to JS there. Thanks. On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 1:46:22 PM UTC-8, spqr wrote: > > I'm writing a fairly unusual type of node program that manages and runs > JavaScript objects that the master program loads at start-up. > I don't want to go into more detail than that, but I do want to make one > comment. It seems to me that "this" as it is defined in > JavaScript, is close to useless. Because I load my objects dynamically and > call their functions via eval(), when they need to run, > "this" never has a useful value. Sure, I worked around it by getting a > reference to the object I really want and passing it in to the > function as an argument (annoying and ugly, but workable). I'm just > curious if anyone really thinks 'this" is useful. I've seen the > construct where you set a var in the object itself that is a reference to > the object... honestly, that looks pretty "off" itself, but also > doesn't work when eval() is involved. > > Is "this" in JavaScript really useful for anything? > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
