On 2009-03-12, at 14:28EDT, Jason Orendorff wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Tobie Langel
<[email protected]> wrote:
It is very useful to be able to specify the debugging
representation of an
object distinctively from it's toJSON or toString representation.
No doubt. I've implemented similar functionality on every serious
JavaScript project I've done.
Same here, but I bet I did it differently. Which makes me think this
is _not_ an area for standardization. As long as there is a standard
way to enumerate the properties of an Object and a standard way to
determine an Object's 'class' (i.e., constructor, which you can only
do in ES3 if you annotate each object yourself), you can write your
own inspect and this is a dandy place to allow innovation, IMO.
toSource or repr can learn from Lisp, but if you really want to do it
right, we have along way to go. There is a big difference between
being able to inspect/debug an object for human legibility and
expecting that you can convert an object to a source expression that
when evaluated will be "equal" to the original object (for some
definition of equal!).
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