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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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dhtml wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> dhtml wrote:
>> > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> >> Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
>> >> > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> >> >> BTW, how do you pass a *scope* to a method?
>> >> > - pass "this" from the global scope to get a reference to it
>>
>> >> `this' has nothing to do with scope.
>>
>> > The global scope is also the global object.
>>
>> Well, no.
>
> No? The global variable object -- global scope -- is not the global
> object?

The problem is your (wrong) terminology, not your understanding.
 
>> > In ES5, they call global scope as "global environment".  (10.2.3 The
>> > Global Environment)
>> That's correct, and quite a different thing.
>
> It's a terminology change. ES3 uses "global scope" to mean the global
> VariableObject, which again, is the global object itself; ES5 calls
> that same thing the "Global Environment".

An object is _not_ a scope, period.


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