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The first two steps of the algorithm are used to check that the this value is correct, but for static operations this shouldn't matter.
Fixed: http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/WebIDL/Overview.xml.diff?r1=1.449;r2=1.450;f=h