On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: >> ... >> If you could redefine [] as an operator on all objects, perhaps that would >> help. Or hurt. Both, probably. That isn't what Allen proposes, though. It >> would have to be universal AFAICT. Thoughts? >> > > Actually, that sounds pretty much what I proposed. My proposal was that [ ] > (actually RHS and LHS independently) would invoke a method using a well known > property name if it was present on the object to the left of the [ ]. If the > property was not present (own or inherited) then it would fall back to > current behavior.
So Object.prototype customization would cover all cases? Except Proxies, of course -- and host objects. /be
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