I wrote an article about `this` [1], where I try to explain it in painstaking detail, and the best way I found to explain it was as "the argument which is passe

I wrote an article about `this` [1], where I try to explain it in painstaking detail, and the best way I found to explain it was as "the argument which is passed to a function by placing it left of the dot" [1] https://gist.github.com/spion/7180482 https://gist.github.com/spion/7180482