On Apr 11, 2012, at 7:12 AM, Peter van der Zee wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote:
>> What is a good term for functions that don’t have/use dynamic `this`?
>
> A bound function?
I'm leaning in that direction. A bound function has an unbound (dynamic) this
while a bound function has a bound (fixed) this.
To further clarify this it might be useful to better differentiate binding
this from currying the arguments.
We might do this by adding a new Function.prototype.curry function that doesn't
have a this value as its first argument.
You would then
fn.curry(1,2)
If you want to create a curried function from fn with 1 and 2 as the first two
fn arguments. and:
fn.bind(foo)
if you want to created a bound version of fn where this is bound to the value
of foo.
The semantics of
fn.bind(foo,1,2)
could then be explained as being equivalent to
fn.bind(foo).curry(1,2)
Allen
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