On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never said unshadowable ...
>
You did:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> also `eval` can be in-scope redefined as much as global, window, or self,
> so no, that's actually not a solution.
>
> I am saying that `global` should be a global reference to the global
> object which is mentioned in ES6/2015 but it's not specified how it should
> be referenced. `window` is not welcome even in DOM tools like browserify,
> `global` is ubiquitous in its meaning, it does not confuse anyone like a
> `self` in node.js or others would do, and it will solve forever the hassle
> of referencing *by deafault* a global object without needing to eval,
> Function('return this'), [].sort(), or whatever wizardy you coudl came up
> to retrieve and/or reference the global object.
>
> It's deadly simple: whatever freedom implementors have to put window
> and/or self in, they MUST put a `global` reference too ... that will make
> everything else redundant, in the long term, and not vice-versa
>
> Is this really that complicated to ship?
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
>> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> also `eval` can be in-scope redefined as much as global, window, or
>>> self, so no, that's actually not a solution.
>>>
>>> Btw, I wasn't asking for a workaround, I was proposing to officially
>>> bring ES 2015 `global` object as language reference in ES7/201X
>>>
>>
>> In an unshadowable manner? Never gonna happen. Everything that provides
>> authority must be virtualizable.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> It's a very tiny improvement for every developer benefit ( 8.5 + 14.1
>>> millions of results in Github for `typeof global` apparently got unnoticed )
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
>>> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> it's a no-go under CSP so it's as bad as `Function('return this')()`
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/17/15 11:27 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> (1,eval)('"use strict"; this')
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This has the drawback of making eyes bleed, but the benefit of working
>>>>> reliably (unlike "window", "self", or "global").... ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> -Boris
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>> --MarkM
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