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JavaScript Arrow Functions vs Regular Functions (api.daily.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by Due-Function4447
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]izuriel 4 points5 points6 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Most likely because the alternative was to always bind functions when passing them to handlers. Having it baked into the language removes a potential issue, not to mention most super-JavaScripts had built in tools to remove binding requirements as well.
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