On 7 July 2011 16:12, David Bruant <david.bru...@labri.fr> wrote:
>>> Derived traps as showed are written in JS for expository purposes.
>>> Engines
>>> will be free to optimize as they wish internally as long as the observed
>>> behavior is the same.
>>
>> True, but optimizing that actually is more tricky than you might
>> think, since in general it would change the semantics if an engine
>> decided to call toString only once. It has to make sure that none of
>> the names are objects, or at least none of their toString methods was
>> modified and they are all free of side effects.
>
> Interesting.
> However, I'm not sure side-effects are a problem.
> -----
> var o = {a:1, toString:function(){o.b = 12; return 'a'; }};
> console.log(o[o], o.b); // 1, 12 on Firefox 5
> -----
> Here, o[o] triggers a side effect and that sound like the normal behavior.
I'm not sure I understand what your example is intended to show. But
consider this:
var i = 0
var o = {toString: function() { ++i; return "a" }
var p = Proxy.create({getOwnPropertyNames: function() { return [o] }, ...})
var k = Object.keys(p)
// What's the value of i now?
/Andreas
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