On 31 May 2012 18:03, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
s/isn't/is/ ? Sure, you can do that, but I can't see how dealing with these cases only would be particularly useful functionality. And regardless, I'd argue that even those are implementation details. /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
