On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Raul-Sebastian Mihăilă <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a dilemma. I like how typically the built-in methods are not > constructors (like Array.prototype.forEach). I have cases in which I'm > creating a function in which I want to use `this` but I would like the > function to not be constructible. There are ways of doing this: > - checking new.target - but you have to check and the last time I checked > uglifyjs was failing because of it. > - ({function() { ... }}).function - but this requires creating an object > every time, so it's ugly. > > It would probably be too much to add a new kind of function definition, but > I was wondering if anybody ever cared about this kind of things. For > instance, would people usually expect frameworks/libaries or Javascript > itself to not make functions constructible if they're not meant to be?
The obvious question is, why do you want to use `this`? ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
