On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rick Waldron wrote:
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>> # Thin Arrow?
>> (Presented by Brendan Eich, Mozilla)
>>
>> We have the fat-arrow, supported by Kevin Smith's research, it's a win.
>> Some voices in the community don't want the unexpected behaviour of the
>> soft-bound lexical `this`
>>
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> "bound 'this'" would do -- "hard-bound" if you insist.
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> I think soft-bind is dead as discussed here, since it adds a flag argument
> or equivalent that must be set by every caller anywhere -- this won't fly
> with V8 and SpiderMonkey and other engines.
>
> I'd prefer just "bound" so we can stop pretending there's a "soft" option.


Sorry, I likely misheard you, I'll correct the notes before I submit to ECMA

Rick



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