16.3: ES6 Arrow Function - Topics of JavaScript/ES6

In this video, I cover anonymous functions with the arrow syntax in ES6 JavaScript.
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I really like that you don't edit out your mistakes, these are the same mistakes I make and it's cool to see someone else going through the process. Makes your tutorials much more relatable.

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While I agree, its similar to when we were in school and some kid starts talking about a particular cartoon, u are like "wow im not alone??? he's watching it too???" while EVERY kid is watching/has watched cartoon. Back to this example, at 2:30 he was wrong, i think he was refering to the Arrow FN as "it can ONLY be used as Anonymous FN" which is NOT true, and a big mistake which he should have corrected before uploading the video -> either a cut-addition of video explaining it, or a text of "NOPE I was wrong, you can assign them to a variable too.

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Recently learned about arrow fns while messing with node. It was confusing at first but it's basically just a shorthand function which ends up being much cleaner. Now I try to use it whenever.

[@iskariotas]

ArnoldsK there are catches with it tho. The scope is different than normal foos.

[@dvorapat]

@Nikolajus Exactly! It is not just "shorthand function". It could be clearly seen in the video with the Counter class example that it is not the same, because arrow functions use lexical scoping. I found this article helpful to tell a difference between "standard" function and arrow functions: derickbailey.com/2015/09/28/do-es6-arrow-functions-really-solve-this-in-javascript/

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It's a bit different from regular functions in that the current execution context(this) refers to the Global (or undefined, if you're in strict mode) instead of the function itself for regular functions

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if for some reason I had a reference to the current object as it would be seen by something with a global scope, could I use that to reference the object function as the callback in setInterval? I find myself wondering the exact difference between an unnamed function and the arrow function now (aside from a more concise syntax) as one works in this context but the other does not...

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