On Jan 17, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Frankie Bagnardi wrote: > arguments.new.target makes more sense to me.
the problem with this or hanging anything off of `arguments` is that it can be a potential accidental capability leak if people pass `arguments` around thinking they are just passing an array of values. That's why ES5 removed `arguments.callee` from strict mode. > > If we do want to move towards keyword.identifier being a normal occurance, > then I think new.target is perfectly reasonable. I'm all for that, and it > makes the job of tooling a lot simpler where it's used. > > In the current draft, is new["target"] a syntax error, or equivalent to > new.target? syntax error! `new.target` is a special form and not a property access. We probably don't want to allow make it seem more like a property access by allowing a `[ ]` formulation. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
