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bronson on June 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: Have you moved from JavaScript to CoffeeScri...

No, it's a jQueryism. How would it break the way closures are handled in JavaScript?

You realize you're replying to the author of CoffeeScript?

electrichead on June 23, 2011 [–]

LoL I did not realize that. To me, I think I've just made my peace with the way it is. I don't think that jQuery needs to be changed in the way mentioned though - to me, 'this' is context sensitive and in this case, it would refer to the current object and not the container

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