On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, John J Barton wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dglazkov@google.com');>
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>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'waldron.rick@gmail.com');>>
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>> > Everyone's answer to this should be "no"; changing the expected value
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>> > top level "this", in some magical way, simply won't work.
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>> Can you explain why you feel this way?
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> 1) Because <script> has never done this before, so it better be compelling.
> 2) Because causing |this| to change by moving the <script> tag in the HTML
> or adding a layer of elements etc seems likely to cause hard to understand
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> 3) Forcing the binding based on position is inflexible.
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> To be sure this is implicit-declarative vs explicit-imperative bias, not
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> Oh, sorry you were asking Rick.
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Well, you covered what I would've said so thanks!
There are other aspects, but I'm not 100% on them and I'd like to check my
facts before presenting them as evidence.
Rick
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