Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
On Oct 1, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
We can try to tell ES implementors that they must do certain things in order to
be in conformance but that really doesn't work for code written by users of the
language.
You're right, we'd be letting usercode, not just some (benign or malign, but if
malign then game over already) host object, spoof a core language built-in.
But if we have a solid branding mechanism (like Domado's ideal in latest
browsers? ;-) then that should be used universally and this becomes a
don't-care.
/be
Great, but this is really an orthogonal issue from my extensible
Obj.proto.toString design.
I know, but I'm trying to simplify the spec further than you are.
(Allen and I had a phone call -- thanks to that, better understanding of
what's at stake.)
Unfortunately, toString is used as a brand test by old code and SES
(targeting pre-ES6 browsers). But rather than enshrine this forever, I
would like to discuss breaking one case slightly in order to have a
simpler spec.
The case that the draft spec upholds is
* New ES6+ browser, old and new script mixing, old script uses
O_p_toString_call to tag-test and new script uses @toStringTag to spoof.
I'd like to break this case, allowing old script in a new browser to be
spoofed by new script using @toStringTag.
Mark, is this a worry? If so then perhaps we are stuck with the
complicated Object.prototype.toString in the latest draft.
If not, and I would argue any SES subset must protect its "old script"
from any spoofing new script, then we should try to unify
[[NativeBrand]] and @@toStringTag by eliminating use of the former in
Object.prototype.toString's spec, making the latter the sole extension
mechanism.
Allen and I also discussed the plan I intend to try in SpiderMonkey:
making Date.prototype, Number.prototype, etc. test as "Object" according
to the O_p_toString_call tag test. We think this should not affect SES
or any real code (as Oliver postulated).
Comments welcome,
/be
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