On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:43 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
The bug that Brendan and I were referring to was 61911:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61911
For reference so new readers don't have to look far back in the old
thread.
On FF3.0.3, a bit of testing reveals that
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:43 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
[...]
callable
regexps were a SpiderMonkey extension never adopted by any non-
Mozilla
JavaScript implementation AFAIK, and they introduce an irregularity
in
the language.
Not so.
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Juriy Zaytsev wrote:
There was a discussion of this ticket on Hacker News this morning
and we had this slight confusion on whether giving RegExp objects a
[[Call]] property is permitted by spec http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760529
. I thought it was, since
On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Juriy Zaytsev wrote:
There was a discussion of this ticket on Hacker News this morning
and we had this slight confusion on whether giving RegExp objects a
[[Call]] property is permitted by spec
Subject: Re: Callable RegExp vs. typeof (was: Re: Draft of
Function.prototype.bind.)
On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Juriy Zaytsev wrote:
There was a discussion of this ticket on Hacker News this morning
and we had this slight confusion on whether giving RegExp objects a
[[Call]] property
Mark S. Miller wrote:
11. If the [[Class]] property of /G/ is *Function*, then
1. Get the *length* property of /G/.
2. Let /L/ be Result(11a) minus the length of /A/.
What does minus mean here? Result(11a) could be anything.
Waldemar
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Waldemar Horwat [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Mark S. Miller wrote:
11. If the [[Class]] property of /G/ is *Function*, then
1. Get the *length* property of /G/.
2. Let /L/ be Result(11a) minus the length of /A/.
What does
On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
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TC39 has generally avoided adding new globals; JSON is it for ES3.1
/[[DefaultValue]]/hint mechanisms of the specification.
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Brendan Eich wrote:
On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:52 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood
On Nov 6, 2008, at 5:11 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
Brendan Eich wrote:
On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:52 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
Brendan Eich wrote:
We'll make regexps non-callable in a future release whose numbering
allows us to break compatibility for all the users who may be
relying
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TC39 has generally avoided adding new globals; JSON is it for ES3.1
(AFAIK), and since Murphy was an optimist, it is breaking
On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:43 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
Can someone provide a link to this bug, or to that prior discussion
of this
bug? Thanks.
Sorry, I meant to post that before.
The bug that Brendan and I were referring to was 61911:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61911
On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:52 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
Brendan Eich wrote:
We'll make regexps non-callable in a future release whose numbering
allows us to break compatibility for all the users who may be
relying on
this JS extension.
What's wrong with that release being the one that
Mike Shaver wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An object that was previously a callable nonfunction in some browser,
can always be compatibly changed into a real function instead.
Does that mean that RegExp.prototype has as its prototype
On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:50 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
That is, native objects that implement [[Call]] must be functions.
No, see 16, second list, second bullet:
An implementation may provide additional types, values, objects,
properties, and functions beyond those described in this
On Nov 3, 2008, at 7:16 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
It's completely trivial, but if you want a hand-wavey demo:
function makeHTMLCollection(underlying) {
function collection(nameOrIndex) {
// I think this is how MSIE behaves:
return typeof nameOrIndex === 'string'
?
Brendan Eich wrote:
On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:50 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
That is, native objects that implement [[Call]] must be functions.
No, see 16, second list, second bullet:
An implementation may provide additional types, values, objects,
properties, and functions beyond those
Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
On Nov 3, 2008, at 11:32 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
Mark S. Miller wrote:
First, I'd like to thank Richard Cornford, cc'ed, who provided the
earlier draft of Function.prototype.bind that grew into this one.
Thanks!
Below, I modified Richard's draft according to
On Nov 3, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Nov 3, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
JavaScriptCore's RegExp objects have been callable since Safari 1.0
Beta 1 and I believe they have returned function from typeof that
whole time. (The Mozilla bug report says otherwise
On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
See also 11.4.3 The typeof Operator (second to last table row).
For reference, the last three rows of that table are
Object (native and doesn't implement [[Call]])
On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:01 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
Brendan Eich wrote:
On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:50 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
That is, native objects that implement [[Call]] must be functions.
No, see 16, second list, second bullet:
An implementation may provide additional types,
With the formatting from the word doc, as converted by other tools:
*15.3.4.5 Function.prototype.bind (thisArg [, arg1 [, arg2, …]])*
The bind method takes one or more arguments, *thisArg * and (optionally) *
arg1*, *arg2*, etc, and returns a new function object by performing the
following steps:
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