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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by foreigner on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:29PM (#14116578)
One of my coworkers made the good suggestion that "that" is only one character away from "this", so we use "self" instead for the same purpose.
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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by yathern on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:25PM (#14117017)
Not to be overly pedantic, but I'm I missing something here? "that" -> "this" is a two character change, no?
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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by foreigner on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:37PM (#14117648)
Ha ha of course you're right! Math is hard.
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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday April 14, 2017 @08:56PM (#14118697)
Barbie? That you?
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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by Filligree on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:49PM (#14116724)
I've always used 'me'. Not for any particular reason, it's just the first name that occurred to me.
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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by recursive on Sunday April 16, 2017 @01:14PM (#14126480)
FYI this is the keyword that Visual Basic uses as well.
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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by j79 on Friday April 14, 2017 @06:47PM (#14118013)
It could get messy if you're doing stuff with Canvas, but I've used "ctx" in the past to denote the context change.
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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by bjterry on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:31PM (#14118830)
'self' is also the global variable when you are in a WebWorker context, so it's sort of like overwriting 'window'. When you are in a window context 'self' is also identical with 'window' but people don't usually use it there.
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Re:Replacing ‘that = this’ assignments in JavaScript with Ar... by nickserv on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:48PM (#14117716)
I use 'self' as well, but for me it was because I used Python before JS.
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