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Support use of `this` keyword in static ES6 methods

See original GitHub issue

It’s very common (and safe) to use the this keyword in a static member definition:

class Foo {
  static get baz() { return 'baz'; }

  static bar() {
    console.log(this.baz);
  }
}

We should replace the this keyword with a reference to the class name.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:8 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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samouricommented, Aug 4, 2020

Chiming in here to point out that using this within static es6 methods doesn’t throw an error at compile time, which is what I’d prefer for an unsupported feature (vs. breaking at runtime).

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princedcommented, Jul 12, 2019

It turns out that https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/commit/5b1e5316e5228d6d9f205e28440d67d9ec007f4b only fixes issues like https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/issues/2880 (unknown type of this), but the main problem (collapsing static methods) is still there.

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