On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Functions have static scope (see the [[Scope]] internal property). This is > absolute and with very good reason!
Yes, functions have static scope, but functions (and all objects) do not have static owning objects, they are free to be passed around and assigned as desired, this is what a static super breaks. > Your proposal requires another (implicit) parameter to functions taking super. > > Since we do not know at the call site whether a function takes super, it > requires an extra parameter for every call. This costs too much. > Its value is already resolved via prototype climbing, I don't see the tremendous cost is simply making this value accessible within the function activation which occurs as a result of the prototype climbing. > /be > > Cheers, Sean Eagan _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
