I'm writing a fairly unusual type of node program that manages and runs JavaScript objects that the master program loads at start-up. I don't want to go into more detail than that, but I do want to make one comment. It seems to me that "this" as it is defined in JavaScript, is close to useless. Because I load my objects dynamically and call their functions via eval(), when they need to run, "this" never has a useful value. Sure, I worked around it by getting a reference to the object I really want and passing it in to the function as an argument (annoying and ugly, but workable). I'm just curious if anyone really thinks 'this" is useful. I've seen the construct where you set a var in the object itself that is a reference to the object... honestly, that looks pretty "off" itself, but also doesn't work when eval() is involved.
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