What is the meaning of this?

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 2 February 2010 22:39, Alex Buckley <Alex.Buckley at sun.com> wrote:
> I am pleased that this list has exposed different opinions and (more
> importantly) their underlying beliefs. Doubtless the draft spec will
> take a position that reflects some beliefs and not others, leading to
> much wailing and gnashing of teeth. That is inevitable

Exactly. In the end someone (probably you) will take a decision and we
will live with it.

However, I would appeal to you to explain your reasoning wrt some of
the key design choices, notably wrt "this".

While I can see both sides of the argument, I came to the conclusion
fairly easily that "this" should be lexical (most useful to
developers, most expected in actual use) while "return" should be
scoped (most useful to developers, most expected in actual use, least
buggy, least scary). But what I really want to see are the decision
makers motivations ;-)

Stephen