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henryzhu on Dec 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript: Clarifying The Keyword ‘this’

Totally, just remember to use var. Dangerous this is much scary then accidentally adding a global variable.

v413 on Dec 31, 2012 [–]

The problem with `self` is that it is already a predefined global variable in the browser pointing to the global object :)

And btw, the `this` situation with javascript is not that bad :) use bind - either the Ecmascript 5 version or shimmed and you will be fine. Not much drama.

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