Do we have any mechanism for detecting if a property is using a
getter/setter or detecting the attributes of a property? It seems like if we
can get make getters/setters as properties through object initializers, we
should be able to detect if a property is using a getter/setter. Also, if we
can define property attributes through Object.defineProperty, it seems we
should also be able to detect the attributes of a property. As far as
attributes, I believe you can use various (ugly) tests to see a property is
readonly, permanent, and/or enumerable, but it seems reasonable to have a
complement to defineProperty that could provide this information. In SM (and
Safari and newer Opera, I assume), you can determine if a property has a
getter/setter (and get the function) with __lookup{G|S}etter__.
Thanks,
Kris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Eich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <es4-discuss@mozilla.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: ES4 draft LAST CALL: Object
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>
>> * I still prefer __defineProperty__ (under whatever name) to be a
>> static property rather than an instance property, so that an object
>> can reliably perform this operation on itself without worrying about
>> whether it is shadowed by an own property of the same name. As an
>> instance method, to protect against this shadowing, one must instead
>> write:
>>
>> Object.prototype.__defineProperty__.call(this, ...)
>>
>> This is so much less convenient than the unsafe
>>
>> this.__defineProperty__(...)
>>
>> that people will get sloppy. Part of programming language design is to
>> make the safer way also generally be the easier way. The innumerable
>> places where
>>
>> Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(this, ...)
>>
>> were or needed to be written should have already taught these lessons.
>
> I agree completely, based on Narcissus experience -- see:
>
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?string=__defineProperty__
>
> in particular
>
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?string=hasDirectProperty
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> The long-standing Mozilla __defineGetter__, __defineSetter__, etc.,
> if they were to be standardized, could also be rephrased as Object
> "static methods". In ES4 terms these would be final and static, so
> fixtures.
>
>> * I also continue to think that any of the other alternatives for
>> parameterizing __defineProperty__ were more readable than a bunch of
>> positional flag parameters whose order will often be mis-remembered.
>> My favorite remains a C-style or-ing of bit flags, with manifest
>> constants defining the bits.
>
> Agreed again -- Narcissus's __defineProperty__ used dontDelete,
> readOnly, dontEnum trailing booleans, which at least initially helped
> by allowing the most common cases to leave off trailing arguments.
> But I could never remember which was which, reading opaque triples of
> boolean values in call sites.
>
> /be
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