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Re:Trine – A utility library for functional programming in J... by codecurve on Thursday June 11, 2015 @11:36AM (#9700320)
(function double() { return this * 2; }).call(2) === 4

I didn't have to box anything to pass a primitive as this. Maybe some other versions are different, but this works in Chrome 40 and Firefox 33.

Re:Trine – A utility library for functional programming in J... by implicit on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:36PM (#9700704)
Are you sure?

    > function isboxed() { return this instanceof Number; }
    > isboxed.call(5);
    true
Re:Trine – A utility library for functional programming in J... by CrossEye on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:28PM (#9702166)
as inglor said, this depends on strict mode:

    > var isboxed = (function() {"use strict"; return function isboxed() {return this instanceof Number;}}());
    > isboxed.call(5);
    false