On May 1, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: >> A simple solution that would allow maintaining the >> above mentioned 'invariant' in most cases and allow breaking it when >> necessary would involve a flag passed into the 'get' handler >> indicating that the property is about to be 'called'. What would be >> the negative ramifications of such a solution (asides from the fact >> that it may get abused - like the 'get' accessor in es5 ;)? > > This is a good idea. In all practical implementations, callee expressions are > specialized so the "get" can tell it is computing a callee. This is done to > bind |this| in the call expression of which the callee expression is a left > prefix.
[[Get]] in JavaScriptCore does not distinguish the get for a.b vs a.b(), i like to imagine that we count as being a practical implementation ;) --Oliver _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
