On Nov 11, 8:22 pm, Marc Guillemot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> #374918 is not the only bug for which I'd like to see more interest from
> the committers. Nevertheless you're right that it is currently the one
> that has the highest priority for me. As written in my last comment to
> the bug, the patch that I uploaded for 2 months doesn't fully solve the
> problem. I will come today or tomorrow with a new patch (it was a long
> work but I have currently only 2 failing standard tests remaining) and
> this is where help from (probably all) committers will be needed: indeed
> it is not possible to fix this when Rhino continue to use String, Double
> and Boolean to handle JavaScript primitives. This means that extra
I had a look at the problem and came to the same conclusion.
> classes have to be introduced ("PrimitiveString", ...) what has large
> consequences but what may be a chance to start addressing the problem
> reported by Attila as "Death by Double".
Looking forward to your patch. My first idea was to add a Context
feature switch to always wrap string/number primitives into String/
Number objects, but while that would probably simple to implement, it
would of course break the typeof operator.
Hannes
> Cheers,
> Marc.
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