2009/1/24 Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com>:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Peter Michaux <petermich...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Is there a way to write "make" without using eval so that the
>> constructor is called with an arbitrary number of arguments?
>
> In Harmony you'll be able to use the "..." operator.
>
> In ES3 and ES3.1, in order to handle Date, RegExp, and Array, the Cajita
> runtime includes Mike Samuel's "triangle of hackery":
>
No offense, but that is some ugly code.
For user defined function, you can "hide" the constructor function in
a function then export a "create" method that calls "new".
var pkg = {};
(function(){
pkg.createC = createC;
function createC(s) {
return new C(s);
}
function C(s){
this.s = s;
}
})();
pkg.createC('s');
The constructor can still be gotten by the constructor property of a
created instance, so it can be broken, but only if the user tries.
Lots of plumbing there, too.
To supply varargs to that constructor, use a newApply function.
Function newApply, for a constructor C:
1) create a dummy function F
2) assign the C's prototype to F
3) create a new F, as i
4) call C.apply(i, arguments)
Garrett
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