If you look in the proposal's repo, they explain the rationale behind the identifier: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global/
Here's a short summary: `globalThis` is the same value you get from evaluating `this` in the global scope of a sloppy mode script. This is subtly different than a "global object", which JS has no concept of. There's other nuances involved, too. Concretely, for one example, `globalObject` was explicitly rejected because in HTML, the global `this` is a proxy of `window`, not the `window` object itself. The `window` proxy delegates all operations to the current global `window`, as you might expect. But here's where things get interesting: during navigation, the window changes, yet the global `this` does not, so if you define a property, capture the global `this`, and navigate, the property you just defined will disappear, but the global `this` you captured still has the same identity as the new reference. This file in particular explains the naming side of it in detail: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global/blob/master/NAMING.md It covers the other suggested names here indirectly. And do keep in mind much of TC39's members are non-native speakers themselves, including one of the proposal's biggest champions/fans, Matthias. So it's not like that concern goes unnoticed - if anything, it gets accounted for without them even thinking about it. It might also explain why it's `array.entries()`, `map.entries()`, and similar when the more proper English name would've been `array.pairs()`, `map.pairs()`, and so on: entries are really what values from `value[Symbol.iterator]()` represent, and non-native speakers sometimes misuse "entries" as if it were synonymous with "pairs". Contrast this with Underscore's `_.pairs`, named by a native English speaker back in 2012, long before ES6 was a thing, and it stood as precedent for having `coll.entries()` for various collections. On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 14:12 #!/JoePea <[email protected]> wrote: > I know it may be too late for this, but I imagine `globalThis` can bring > confusion to beginners, especially ESL beginners. > > Things like `globalObject`, `systemGlobal`, or `globalEntity` would've > been more intuitive; they make sense in plain English. > > Well anyways, have a good weekend! > > - Joe > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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