On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:35 PM, David Herman <[email protected]> wrote:

> > P.S.: so having this issue as already solved (as a runtime error, but
> still -- the error!, not a typo-hazard!)
>
> It doesn't always produce a runtime error. If the property happens to be
> there, there's no error. Also, take a look at the confusing issues that
> arise from the dynamic semantics of global lookup:
>
>
> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es5-discuss/2010-October/thread.html#3760
>
> Strict mode tried valiantly to make unbound variables an error, but there's
> only so much you can do with a dynamic semantics for scoping [1]. Once we
> have static scoping these problems go away.
>
> Dave
>
> [1] How's that for avoiding the phrase "dynamic scoping"? ;)
>

+1 ;).


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    --MarkM
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