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Expand Up @@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ The value of `this` is one for the whole function, code blocks and object litera

So `ref: this` actually takes current `this` of the function.

We can rewrite the function and return the same `this` with `undefined` value:

```js run
function makeUser(){
return this; // this time there's no object literal
}

alert( makeUser().name ); // Error: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
```
As you can see the result of `alert( makeUser().name )` is the same as the result of `alert( user.ref.name )` from the previous example.

Here's the opposite case:

```js run
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