Off the top of my head, I'd guess you're using FireFox. I know the JS
engine in FireFox (SpiderMonkey) exposes the name of a function via
the `name` property, however, I don't know whether that property is
mutable.
My guess, from the behaviour of your code, is `name` is not a mutable
property.
On 8 Jun, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Franck PORCHER wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying for days o understand what I have missed.
>
> I have narrowed down the problem to this, where I create a simple
> class 'foo' that I extend to assign a private member 'name' set to
> 'FOO':
> var foo = Class.create({});
> Object.extend( foo, { name : 'FOO' } );
> Then :
> alert(foo.name)
> surprisingly displays
> klass
> (instead of FOO)
>
> Samething if I explicitely force the value to 'FOO'
> foo.name = 'FOO'
> Is there someone in the position to tell me what is going on, and
> why foo's private member 'name' does not hold its value. This does
> not happen if I choose another name for the private member.
>
> This has been most upsetting to me for days now, and I fail to
> understand what I am missing.
>
> So thank you to anyone who would help me understand my mistake if
> this is not a bug.
>
> Franck PORCHER
>
>
> >
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