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Is there a reason why the author is referring to them as fat arrow functions instead of lambdas? I am not trying to be snarky, this is genuine curiosity if the

• gwwar 13y ago
  If you recall, a lambda is just an anonymous function which javascript already has. //an example of a self-executing anonymous function (function(x) { return x * x; } (3)); //returns 9 arrow functions are a bit different in that: * It has Lexical this (normally fixed in usual functions via closure or .bind()) * this cannot be redefined * arrow functions cannot be used as a constructor * arrow functions are always anonymous See also: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:arrow_function_syntax http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:arrow_functio...