On May 18, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Tom Van Cutsem wrote: > Proxies do coerce all property names to strings, e.g. proxy[obj] will trigger > the 'get' trap with 'obj' coerced to a String. This is not actually enforced > by the proxy spec, but rather by ES5 (e.g. [[Get]] assumes that its argument > P is bound to a property name (a String)). At one point we suggested removing > this restriction, so that "proxy[obj]" would give the get trap direct access > to obj (which would be particularly useful when intercepting numeric indices > on array-like proxies). IIRC, we didn't pursue this option since engines rely > on property names being strings in other places, and widening the type of > property names to cover arbitrary objects would be problematic.
SpiderMonkey has a wider internal property name type, which can accomodate at least int and object names. The int case is an optimization, commonly done. The object case is for E4X and perhaps private names. Oliver wrote in the thread at the time that he thought allowing any value to be used as a property name (in brackets) and passed through uncoerced to proxies was implementable without trouble for JavaScriptCore, IIRC. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
