I will say this, use of this is very scary and requires me to look at the docs more often (need to know where in the scope chain this is being set). In fact, I

I will say this, use of this is very scary and requires me to look at the docs more often (need to know where in the scope chain this is being set). In fact, I'd argue that in general seeing uses of this outside of object oriented code make me sit up and look very carefully, because its really easy to get spooky "action at a distance" type behaviour.