This is my first reply on es-discuss, so my apologies if I've done something incorrectly and this doesn't get properly routed.
David and Lasse, I'd like to direct you to https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim and, in particular, pull request #43: https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim/pull/43 In that series of commits, I removed all runtime dependence on the environment and bootstrapped Function.prototype.bind while relying only on the existence of Function.prototype.call at definition time and with no dependencies at runtime. This allows me to call any function using `call(functionName, thisArg, argument0, argument1, ...)`. I also used that to bootsrap a similar `apply` function. The general idea behind bootstrapping a bind method was to make a sub-par `call` and `apply` implementation that relied on `Function.prototype.call.call`, but replacing them after defining bind by using our new bind method similarly to how you suggested. It'd probably be easier to just read the code, though, than have me continue trying to explain it. Michael Ficarra ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Bruant <[email protected]> > To: Lasse Reichstein <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:28:54 +0200 > Subject: Re: Necessity of a syntax construct for bind > ** > Le 31/08/2011 10:52, Lasse Reichstein a écrit : > > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:46 PM, David Bruant <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Le 30/08/2011 21:59, Lasse Reichstein a écrit : >> >> A reliable .call could probably also achieve the same. >> >> A reliable .call could be achieved by composing a reliable .bind and the >> function call syntax. >> > > True. The Bind operation is the currying of the Call operation. > > Ah, that got me thinking. I can do > var CallFunction = Function.prototype.call.bind(Function.prototype.call); > since bind does give a different way to set the this-object for a call. > This can be done once, before anybody gets to mangle the builtins, and can > be stored for afterwards. Excellent! > > Brilliant! > > Of course, it requires a native Function.prototype.bind, but that's > brilliant! > > David >
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