On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Andrew Dupont <mozi...@andrewdupont.net> wrote: > >> BTW, if you know that a property name is foo, why would you ever code >> obj["foo"] instead of obj.foo? > > The proposal strongly implies that the `private` declaration affects only "a > property name on the right of . or the left of : in an object initialiser." > Does it also affect bracket notation? In other words: > > private foo; > obj.foo = 42; > obj['foo'] === obj.foo; // true or false?
Assuming that we hadn't previously set obj['foo'], then false. > If the answer is `false`, that's your answer for why I'd ever code > `obj['foo']` instead of `obj.foo`. If the answer is `true`, then that answers > one of the questions I was asking earlier; but it also means that there's no > way to get around the fact that the `private` declaration is "shadowing" any > possible use of a public property name called `foo` in the same lexical scope. > -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
