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discopalevo on April 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Finally someone makes sense of JavaScript's this k...

nothing about context, then function called in expressions

var a = { b:function(){...}}; a.b() // a var c = false; (c || a.b)() // window

this context is always global

sesqu on April 24, 2011 [–]

That's a needlessly complicated example. You could just write (function(){alert(this)})() -- and in fact, that's what was the very first example.

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