JSLint insists that "Unexpected 'call'"

Question

JSLint insists that there's something wrong with this use of .call:

function GridView(tableArray, tableId, multiselect) {
    "use strict";
    if (multiselect == undefined) {
        this.multiselect = false;
    } else {
        this.multiselect = multiselect;
    }

    this.tableID = tableId;
    this.propertiesArr = [];
    this.tableHTML = undefined;
    this.oTable = undefined;

    this._constructTable.call(this, tableArray);

}

Is wrong. Well, Unexpected, anyway. I just can't for the life of me figure out why, is there something wrong with the code? It seems to work, but I'm worried about unexpected behavior.

Answer 1

The cause of the warning is the following line:

this._constructTable.call(this, tableArray);

This construct appears to be largely pointless - you are calling the _constructTable method in the context of this, which would be the same context it would be called in if you called it via a normal call expression. JSLint is expecting exactly that:

this._constructTable(tableArray);