I’m super not embarrassed to admit that I just learned:
ES6 arrow functions do not have their own `this`. They inherit `this` for free without having to do `.bind` or `self = this`. 
Right. I was listing keywords or special-cased identifiers you’d use within an arrow function.
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yeah I belatedly realized that, my bad!
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No, it’s interesting! I just read it as “here’s one more special keyword” and was like z0mgwtf :)
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Those, and `this`, are not special-cased or anything — it’s just that arrow functions don’t create a new function scope.