"tampered", not "hampered", of course...

On 14 July 2011 12:52, Andreas Rossberg <rossb...@google.com> wrote:
> Very much appreciated. Given all the nasty mutability in JS, I think
> for the non-normative JS implementations you also might want to note
> that it assumes that nobody has hampered with the primordial Object
> object.
>
> /Andreas
>
>
> On 14 July 2011 12:34, Tom Van Cutsem <tomvc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Follow-up: I updated
>> <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proxies_semantics> with a
>> more precise specification of the default behavior of all derived traps.
>> This should also resolve the double-coercion issue with Object.keys.
>> In summary:
>> - for "has", "hasOwn" and "get" it's easy to fall back on specifications of
>> existing built-ins (Object.[[HasProperty]] for "has",
>> Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty for "hasOwn" and Object.[[Get]] for "get")
>> - for "set", falling back on Object.[[Put]] is not ideal, as this built-in
>> performs redundant invocations of [[Get{Own}Property]] through [[CanPut]].
>> Starting from Object.[[Put]] and the default "set" trap as specified in JS
>> itself, I formulated a new "DefaultPut" algorithm that avoids this
>> redundancy.
>> - for "keys" and "enumerate", there is no proper built-in to fall back on. I
>> added two algorithms (FilterEnumerableOwn and FilterEnumerable) that take
>> the uncoerced result of the get{Own}PropertyNames trap, and filter out the
>> enumerable properties, specced after "Array.prototype.filter".
>> I also updated
>> <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proxies#trap_defaults> so
>> that it is clear that that section is only a non-normative description of
>> how derived traps could be implemented in pure Javascript.
>> Cheers,
>> Tom
>>
>> 2011/7/8 Tom Van Cutsem <tomvc...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I believe the alternative that David is talking about is the following
>>> (pending the acceptance of
>>> <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:handler_access_to_proxy>)
>>> keys: function(proxy) {
>>>   return Object.getOwnPropertyNames(proxy).filter(
>>>       function (name) { return Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(proxy,
>>> name).enumerable });
>>> }
>>> (assuming that Object here refers to the built-in Object)
>>> With this definition, I don't see the need for double coercion: the
>>> handler's "getOwnPropertyNames" trap is called, and its result is coerced.
>>> Then, the proxy implementation "knows" that each of the above |name|s passed
>>> to "getOwnPropertyDescriptor" will be a String already, so it doesn't need
>>> to coerce again. Finally, `keys' does not need to coerce its own result
>>> array, since it is simply a filtered version of an already fresh, coerced
>>> array.
>>> Perhaps all self-sends to fundamental traps should be expressed in terms
>>> of the operation that causes the trap, rather than a direct trap invocation.
>>> Similar issues could arise in the default 'set' trap behavior when it calls
>>> 'this.defineProperty' rather than 'Object.defineProperty(proxy,...)'.
>>> 2011/7/7 Andreas Rossberg <rossb...@google.com>
>>>>
>>>> On 7 July 2011 19:35, David Bruant <david.bru...@labri.fr> wrote:
>>>> >> No, with the current keys default trap (calling
>>>> >> this.getOwnPropertyNames()) there is no double conversion. Only one at
>>>> >> the exit of the keys trap. There would be 2 conversions if the "keys"
>>>> >> trap had the proxy argument (based on
>>>> >>
>>>> >> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:handler_access_to_proxy)
>>>> >> and if internally, the default keys trap was calling
>>>> >> "Object.getOwnPropertyNames(proxy)" (which would call the trap and do
>>>> >> type coercion).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> But the current implementation and a type coercion only when going out
>>>> >> of traps would do double-conversion.
>>>> > "not". "would not do double-conversion", sorry.
>>>>
>>>> I thought the fix we were discussing was changing the `keys' default trap
>>>> from
>>>>
>>>> keys: function() {
>>>>  return this.getOwnPropertyNames().filter(
>>>>    function (name) { return
>>>> this.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(name).enumerable }.bind(this));
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> to something along the lines of
>>>>
>>>> keys: function() {
>>>>  return this.getOwnPropertyNames().filter(
>>>>    function (name) { return this.getOwnPropertyDescriptor('' +
>>>> name).enumerable }.bind(this));
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> That would fix passing non-strings to the getOwnPropertyDescriptor
>>>> trap, but introduce double conversions when you invoke Object.keys.
>>>> I'm not sure what alternative you are proposing now.
>>>>
>>>> /Andreas
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