On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 6:31 PM, David Herman wrote:

> On May 30, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Independent of name, I'm trying to test for "might sense this".
> 
> OK, but that begs the question. The problem is that your "might" test is 
> neither sound (as Allen pointed out) nor complete (as I pointed out) for 
> "can." What guarantee are you trying to provide? What do you mean by "might?"
> 
> I *think* the predicate people are asking for is, "does this function behave 
> like a method, and if I use .call/.apply with a custom receiver object, will 
> it use that receiver object?" That's just not something a computable function 
> can accurately predict.
> 
> But I haven't read the JSFixed thread Rick mentioned, so I may have 
> misinterpreted. Rick, can you post a link?

Sure thing, the discussion was here:

 https://github.com/JSFixed/JSFixed/issues/44


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