On 08/02/2010 09:57 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
Can it be argued as to what "integer index" means? And what is a "string index"?
Good catch, that's pretty ambiguous language. Browsers implement this as if "integer index" were equal to the term "array index" defined section 15.4 of ECMA262 (that is an unsigned 32-bit integer other than (1<<32)-1, expressed in simplest-possible decimal form), and "string index" meaning any other index.
The paragraph should be updated to explicitly reference this; probably the language about square brackets should be dropped too, as it seems to represent a misunderstanding of exactly how the ECMAScript square-bracket and dot operators actually work.
Whether a property name is an "array index" or not is an unrelated issue to the matter of how the property value is retrieved. OK, you can't use the direct dot syntax on an array index purely as a grammatical manner, but . and [] aren't the only way to access properties. (eg. document.links.hasOwnProperty('0').)
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