> I do not believe (Axel) that the spec's Reference internal type is helpful as
> an externally-visible part of the language in any of this.
I believe you, I know nothing about how references are actually implemented.
Python works like this:
class Foo:
def bar():
pass
$ f = Foo()
$ f.bar
<bound method Foo.bar of <__main__.Foo instance at 0x103e57950>>
It has always surprised me that JavaScript preserved `this` here:
(new Date().toString)() // (*)
But not here:
(0, new Date().toString)()
Then I found out that spec-wise, (*) is very close to Python. But if
implementations don’t have references then it’s also impossible to keep them
around. One could produce a bound function whenever one evaluates a reference
to a method, but I don’t know if it’s worth the trouble (performance and
compatibility-wise).
If you picture a method invocation obj.foo() as a single construct (and not as
first evaluating obj.foo and then applying the () operator) then things do make
sense – evaluating obj.foo is a different thing and simply gives you back the
function you put there. And, thankfully, with strict mode, things fail fast if
you forget to bind() a method.
--
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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