Brendan Eich wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2009, at 10:41 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
>> Brendan Eich wrote:
>>> On Sep 26, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>>
>>>> This may provide a way to implement some of these behaviors in pure
>>>> ECMAScript. The current proposal does allow [[Construct]] without
>>>> [[Call]], but not [[Call]] and [[Construct]] that both exist but with
>>>> different behavior.
>>>
>>> Date needs the latter.
>>
>> That can already be done in ES5. As I've previously suggested:
>>
>> function Date(yearOrValue, month, date, hours, minutes, seconds, ms) {
>> "use strict";
>> if (this === undefined) {
>> return TimeToString(CurrentTime());
>> }
>> // constructor behaviour
>> ...
>> }
>
> Of course, a variation on "the idiom".
>
> This is similar to what many implementations do too, rather than the
> implementation providing analogues of [[Call]] and [[Construct]]
> internal method on a non-function Date object. It works for Boolean,
> Number, String, and RegExp too.
>
> But it is just a bit unsightly!
<shrug>. It's compatibility guff. Unsightliness in implementation code
is better than adding a language mechanism just to handle a small and
fixed (for all time, hopefully) set of special cases.
(This has probably drifted off-topic for public-{webapps,[email protected],
sorry about that.)
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