That would prevent a user including "indexed at" timestamp. Admittedly an odd thing to do, but banning it seems a bit extreme.
B. On 29 Jan 2014, at 22:45, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Dan Santner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> var today = new Date(); >> >> This value will be computed only once when document get indexed, not >> each time when you query the view. > > Has anyone thought of modifying the JS global bindings when a map function > runs, such that calling Date.new will throw an exception? Preferably an > exception with a descriptive message like "It is illegal to use the current > date in a map function"? It would save considerable support time — I believe > this is the second time this issue has come up in the last week. > > (Yes, probably more appropriate on the dev list…) > > —Jens >
