I don't get it. What is being removed? What purpose does this accomplish?
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 26 mai 2016 à 13:23, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> > Le 26 mai 2016 à 10:43, G. Kay Lee < >> [email protected]> a écrit : >> > >> > I was under the impression that strict mode is a (temporary) workaround >> to get rid of unwanted bad parts of the language without instantly breaking >> anything. The long term question thus should be: do we have a timeline on >> the final removal of non-strict behavior from the language, and establish >> the "strict mode" as the one and only standard behavior. If so, then >> introducing any additional language feature to help detecting >> strict/non-strict is certainly not ideal. >> >> AFAIK, there is no plan to remove non-strict mode. >> >> And to be clear about my intentions, what I have in the back of my head >> was certainly not "introducing any additional language feature to help >> detecting strict/non-strict" (yuck!), but whether it makes sense to think >> about a possible way to remove that leak from `Function#arguments` and >> `Function#caller`. But it would be premature to consider that issue without >> *at least* an answer to my original question: Are there other ways...? >> > > Hi Claude, what do you mean by "remove that leak"? Hypothetically, let's > say you had such a test and that it was reliable. How would you use it > remove the leak? (This is probably also the best way to clarify what > precisely you mean by removing the leak.) > > > Maybe that "leak", namely observing whether a function is strict, is not > something to care about. > > But here is what I think to be a possible way to remove it: Because > `Function#arguments` and `Function#caller` do return `null` for sloppy > functions in some circumstances (namely, when the function is not found in > the call stack), let them always return `null` for non-sloppy functions. > > —Claude > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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