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this keyword in JavaScript

JavaScriptObjectsthis keywordintermediate

What this snippet does

this is determined at call time — when you detach a method and call it as a plain function, this is no longer the object.

Expected output

Hi, I'm Alice
Hi, I'm undefined

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