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+**Answer: an error.**
+
+Try it:
+```js run
+function makeUser() {
+  return {
+    name: "John",
+    ref: this
+  };
+};
+
+let user = makeUser();
+
+alert( user.ref.name ); // Error: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
+```
+
+That's because rules that set `this` do not look at object literals. 
+
+Here the value of `this` inside `makeUser()` is `undefined`, because it is called as a function, not as a method.
+
+And the object literal itself has no effect on `this`. The value of `this` is one for the whole function, code blocks and object literals do not affect it.
+
+So `ref: this` actually takes current `this` of the function.
+
+Here's the opposite case:
+
+```js run
+function makeUser() {
+  return {
+    name: "John",
+*!*
+    ref() {
+      return this;
+    }
+*/!*
+  };
+};
+
+let user = makeUser();
+
+alert( user.ref().name ); // John
+```
+
+Now it works, because `user.ref()` is a method. And the value of `this` is set to the object before dot `.`.
+
+