On May 31, 2012, at 2:27 AM, Andreas Rossberg wrote: > On 31 May 2012 00:31, David Herman <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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?" > > +1 > > I think the function that some here seem to want is neither possible, > nor desirable. Whether a function is looking at 'this' or not (or how > it was constructed that way, i.e. syntactically, or using 'bind') is > pretty much an implementation detail, and it should not be possible to > _sense_ it. A function is free to _document_ it as part of its > contract, though.
I'm not sure if the last couple sentences above is referring to the suggest isBound methods nor not. Certainly whether a function is defined as an arrow function or created using the bind function isn't an objective fact that can be encoded in the function's representation when it is created. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
