On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Alex Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The new forms we're adding (methods and arrows) have the potential to > change this radically, causing a large percentage of functions encountered > by programmers to have binding. If that binding is hard-binding, .call() > and .apply() break in the minds of users. Perhaps that's fine by you, but > in addition to being a contractual failure, it removes a form of > genericness which is unique in the language. > Sorry if I missed reading about this but: why can't we re-bind 'this" in bound functions when using call(), apply() ? I'm sure it will make more work for JIT optimizers but they are very good and love this kind of problem. jjb
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