getX() is designed for a dynamic `this` (i.e. `this` is an instance of
InnerPoint). My proposal would allow an external party to switch to lexical
`this` (=== function Outer), simply by invoking it as a (non-method) function.
I can see how this would be bad.
On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:56 , Andreas Rossberg wrote:
> On 10 November 2011 01:15, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>> We talked about lexical this for functions long ago (Jan. 2008? at Google
>>> anyway) and IIRC Mark found a subtler flaw.
>>
>> I think my original example was smaller and more elegant. But the following
>> is adequate to demonstrate the problem:
>> function Outer(secret) {
>> "use strict";
>> this.v = secret;
>> this.w = secret * 2;
>> this.x = secret * 3;
>> this.InnerPoint = function(x, y) {
>> this.x = x;
>> this.y = y;
>> };
>> this.InnerPoint.prototype = {
>> getX: function() { return this.x; },
>> getY: function() { return this.y; }
>> };
>> }
>> Alice does:
>> var outer = new Outer(mySecret);
>> var innerPoint = new outer.InnerPoint(3,5);
>> bob(innerPoint); // passed innerPoint to Bob, who Alice does not trust.
>> Today, Bob, receiving innerPoint, has no way to obtain Alice's secret. Given
>> your proposal, Bob could do
>> (1,innerPoint.getX)() / 3;
>> Today, if Bob does that, the getX call fails when it tries to evaluate
>> undefined.x.
>
> I must be missing something here. Are you assuming that "new
> outer.InnerPoint(3,4)" would somehow receive `outer' as `this' instead
> of a fresh object? Why would that be the case with the "soft binding"
> described by Axel? Or is this only a counter example for "hard"
> lexical binding of `this'?
>
> /Andreas
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