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submitted 6 days ago by albbi@piefed.ca to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 83 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

nah, I'm never complaining about self in Python after having tried the this and that nonsense in JS.

oh, you're using a named function instead of an arrow fn? Guess what, this is not what it used to be anymore.

[–] kayohtie@pawb.social 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wait there's a "that"???

[–] theit8514@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Only if you define it.

const that = this

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I remember that a long time ago. Oh god

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

I remember this too... what a nightmare.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

it's common practice as a workaround to save this when changing contexts, since this may change under you, in callbacks and such

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

Kotlin:

this@outerFunction.bla

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