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Re: NEVER use "this" as a variable Re: Is the input type ID passed as a parameter onChange? If not how can i achieve it.

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On Monday, 12 August 2019 07:48:52 UTC+1, R.Wieser  wrote:
> 
> > An author must express things so that the compiler will
> > understand as intended.
> 
> In that case, using "this" as a function argument should not be a problem.
> 
> > But it is well to express them so that the author will
> > immediately understand, perhaps many months later
> > - and that means not using any "word"s that are special
> > in the language in a manner other than that presumably
> > intended.
> 
> I understand that part too (I've been "at it" for a few decades myself). 
> Its also why I posted my own example - by comparing I'm trying to get a 
> finger behind the reasoning for your warning..
> 
> > and that means not using any "word"s that are special in
> > the language in a manner other than that presumably
> > intended.
> 
> In my example I've /made/ a word special, by defining it as a non-local 
> (global) variable - possibly containing a reference to an object too.   In 
> our examples, what makes yours more problematic than mine ?   I do not see 
> it, as the very same problem could, as far as I can see, occur in both ...

The name "this" is used for a property, of a particular nature, possessed by some or all objects.  The parser will, if the code is in all respects correct, recognise those instances of the source string "this" (and no others)  as referring to that property.  If the code has a missing or extra '"', for example, a X.this in an intended string might be unveiled and parsed, or a real X.this might be hidden in a string.

Now the programmer, reading the code with reasonable care, might fail to notice a missing '"' and think that a code 'this' was in a string, or /vice versa/.

And a programmer, searching for a genuine coded 'this' by using Ctrl-F, or GREP, or MiniTrue, would not like unnecessary instances of "this" in the source code, 'unnecessary' implying that any other string could have been used instead : "This" or "thiss" or "THIS" or "HIC" or "esta" or "இந்த" or "Tämä" or "dan" or "þetta", maybe.

Taking the argument to its limit, then, a well-educated Swiss person, although compelled to write ECMAScript & CSS using US-English, might compose a Web page with the screen display in French, the identifiers in German, the ordinary comment in Italian, and temporary notes in Romanche comment, reserving Latin and Greek for emergencies.


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