Re: Putting `global` reference in specs

[Alex Kocharin]

 

`self` is a very common local variable name, usually used as a substitute of `this`.

 

So making it a global variable is a terrible idea. Consider this:

 

```

function blah() {}

 

blah.prototype.foo = function () {

  var self = this

 

  asyncStuff(function () {

    self.complete = true

  })

}

```

 

So what happens if you forget that `var self` declaration? Right now in server-side js it's a good old reference error.

 

But if `self` gets adopted, this code will not always fail, but will lead to mistakes (global variable named `complete` in this example).

 

I'd much rather have "window" and "global" as is honestly.

 

 

17.04.2015, 18:02, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbar...@mit.edu>:

On 4/17/15 10:55 AM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:

 We have `window` in DOM land, `self` in Workers

We have `self` in DOM land too, so you can consistently use `self`
across Window and Workers.

 and `global` in most common server side JS engines

Sounds like they should add `self`.  ;)

-Boris
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