On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > Object class reflection is frowned upon in Smalltalk for a reason. We want > protocols, structural conventions -- not nominal type tags. Or so I think!
Perhaps it would be helpful if someone made the case for typeof null === 'null'. To me typeof null === 'object' is fine. It makes null a value in the space of 'object'. In practice I see 'null' used to mean "I know this reference (usually an argument) should be an object; I want to pass nothing but signal that I really did mean to pass nothing." The status quo allows this and it seems enough work for null to do for us. Are there new things I can do if I now have a new answer to the 'typeof' question? jjb _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
