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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: What is this inside a function?
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 23:48:04 +0200
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> The expression new F(...args...) calls the [[Contruct]] internal method
> on F and that method is defined to bind this to an empty object.  The
> [[Construct]] method goes on to call the [[Call]] internal method so the
> main difference between new F(...args...) and F(...args...) is this
> special binding for that.
> 
> (This is not the correct terminology because 'this' is not a name has no
> bindings,

Parse error.

> but it simpler to put it this way.)

<http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.1.1>
| The “this” keyword evaluates to the value of the <ThisBinding> of the 
| current execution context.

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