JS libs/frameworks (jQuery, Dojo, Lo-Dash, Ember, Angular, ...) have
settled on using Object.prototype.toString.call as a way to determine the
kind of a value and don't expect that to throw.
This is edge case but it seems like an unnecessary gotcha to throw at devs.
- JDD
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Jason Orendorff <jason.orendo...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Andrea Giammarchi
> <andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wouldn't that be inconsistent with `{}.toString.call(String.prototype)`
> and
> > all others ?
>
> It is inconsistent, but it's a change TC39 deliberately chose to take.
>
> It's a good change. The fact that Date.prototype is a real Date
> object, for example, has been a common source of bugs and general
> weirdness.
>
> -j
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