It's "exports". I don't remember why, but it'd probably break a bunch of programs to change it now.
The module is run in a function that's called on the exports object. On Sunday, July 1, 2012, Steven Yang wrote: > Hi, > I stumbled upon an intriguing behavior in nodejs's module. I want to > figure out the 'global' object for each module and I tried the following > code: > > https://gist.github.com/3028821 > > console.log(this); > console.log(this === global); > > (function () { > console.log(this); > console.log(this === global); > })() > > What get me confused is the self-invoking function. Within it, `this` > should refer to the object invokes this function and in the contextshould be > the same as `this` in external > context. But why they behave differently? > > What is `this` in the "root" module scope? > > > Best, > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'nodejs%[email protected]');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
