Lars Hansen, back a few years and based on his Opera experience developing Futhark, said that EBay (at least -- possibly other sites) used Function.prototype.toString to decompile a function, edit the source with string and regexp hacks, and recompile with Function (or possibly eval), for self-modifying code in JS.
This means web compatibility rules out dropping high-fidelity toString on function objects just because the implementation is on a memory-poor device. If too memory-poor, no EBay for you! :-P /be On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote: > As far as I remember some Opera mobile versions don't return the code > in Function.prototype.toString. > > A lot of JS frameworks today use the Function.prototype.toString to > find references to super/base but they do fallback on slower paths if > the toString method does not provide the code of the function. > > -- > erik > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
