On Jul 16, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > I could live with lookup, although I think it focuses the meaning > on the access process rather than on the result. Another, slightly > longer alternative would be "retrieve".
What do you say to Ingvar's suggestion of "inspect"? > Regarding, what getOwnProperty returns, what you currently see in > the spec. is probably a bug. Are you tracking these somewhere? I think bugs.ecmascript.org is a fine way to keep trac(k). :-) > My intent was for it to return undefined, although somebody more > steeped in JavaScript idioms could convince me that null is more > appropriate if that really is the case. JS has two bottoms: null means no object and undefined means no value, so for this kind of "descriptor object if property exists, else bottom" API, null is better. /be _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
