On 25/11/2010, at 03:12, RobG wrote:
> On Nov 24, 9:48 pm, Jorge Chamorro <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Quoting Mr. Brendan Eich, here, FYI :
>> 
>> "The ECMAScript global object is not on the prototype chain of some other 
>> (Window) really-global object. The two are the same (which means Window must 
>> not be a "host object" in ES5 terms; see 8.6.2). ECMA-262 requires builtins 
>> such as parseInt and eval to be "own" properties of the global object 
>> (|this| in global code, AKA |window| and |self| in browsers)."
> 
> There is no point to quoting comments out of context with no link or
> citation.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-script-coord/2010OctDec/0090.html

> Window will be a built-in object when it is defined as such
> in some version of ECMA-262 (it is not in either ed3 or ed5). Until
> then, it is, by definition, a host object.

The global object "is not required to follow many basic ECMAScript rules, such 
as the result of a typeof test" ?

(that's exactly why IEs must die)

> Any further discussion should be in comp.lang.javascript. You should
> take the advice offered there and just let it go.

c.l.js... don't even get me started.
-- 
Jorge.

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