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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Expression for the global object
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 11:14:02 +0100
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>What is the smallest scope- and host-independent expression
>>whose value is the global object?
>
> Function("return this")()

How does that help?  The identifier Function is looked-up like any
other.

-- 
Ben.