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Re: Expression for the global object

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From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject Re: Expression for the global object
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> (function () { return eval; })()("this")

In all respects equivalent to

  eval("this")

which is equivalent to

  this

which is why it does not return a reference to the global object, but the 
“undefined” value, in strict function code that is not called as the method 
of an object.

<http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-10.4.2>

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Re: Expression for the global object Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-31 11:14 +0100
  Re: Expression for the global object Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-31 15:08 +0200
    Re: Expression for the global object Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-31 14:56 +0100
      Re: Expression for the global object Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-31 16:12 +0200
        Re: Expression for the global object Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-31 15:57 +0100
          Re: Expression for the global object Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-31 17:33 +0200
            Re: Expression for the global object Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-31 16:41 +0100
      Re: Expression for the global object Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-31 16:21 +0200

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