To contrast non-method properties with methods: - To say that instances usually only have non-method properties. - To say that primitives can have non-method properties, but don’t have their own methods (they borrow them from their wrapper types).
Maybe “non-method property” is good enough for that purpose. On Jul 23, 2011, at 0:00 , Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jul 22, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote: > >> I’m still wondering if there is an established term for a >> non-function-valued property in the JavaScript community (where method is a >> term for a function-valued property). Possibilities that I see are: > > Why do you need this term? In what practical sentence would you use it? > > /be > > >> >> - instance variable >> - member variable >> - field >> >> OO literature sometimes uses the term “attribute” but that is already taken >> by ES-262. >> >> -- >> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer >> >> a...@rauschma.de >> twitter.com/rauschma >> >> home: rauschma.de >> blog: 2ality.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de twitter.com/rauschma home: rauschma.de blog: 2ality.com _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
