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var obj = { destroy: function(){this = null;} }; obj.destroy(); This works in Chrome, however firefox is throwing an error referencing this for some reason. Is there a better way to kill this object within a method? Error: invalid assignment left-hand side [Break On This Error] destroy: function(){this = null;} Not sure why Chrome allows for it but you can't assign a value to this. You can reference this, but you can't assign a value to it. If you have some array destruction you want to perform you can reference this.myArrayName within your destroy method and free up whatever you're trying to

Bounty Edit: I'm looking for code written in a pure prototypical OO paradigm (think Self). Not a mixture of prototypical OO and classical OO. I don't want to see generic OO wrappers but simply usage of prototypical OO techniques and only prototypical OO techniques. Reference Related Question: Prototypical OO in JavaScript In the above question I mainly focused on Can write prototypical OO like this? Do we need constructors and initialization logic, What are the alternatives? New question: Basically are there any good examples of javascript prototypical OO in large open source projects?