Just a bit of back story on Function#bind because I think it's good to know. Prototype's Function#bind was based on the 2004 post "Object-Oriented Event Listening through Partial Application in JavaScript" by Daniel Brockman: http://web.archive.org/web/20100901172230/http://brockman.se/2004/method-references/
There was no de-facto standard of Function#bind. ExtJS, PrototypeJS, MooTools, Dojo, and jQuery each had their own implementations. MooTools Function#bind used to be implemented like: function fn() { console.log([].slice.call(arguments)); } var f = fn.bind({}, ['a', 'b']); // notice an array of arguments f('c'); // ['a', 'b'] // ignored arguments passed to the bound function Ext's implementation is completely different: http://www.sencha.com/learn/legacy/Manual:Utilities:Function#createDelegate Even though Dojo and jQuery implementations don't extend Function.prototype they follow Prototype's implementation with the exception that they also allow passing a string instead of a function and jQuery adds a `guid` property to the bound function. http://dojotoolkit.org/api/dojo.hitch http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.proxy/#example-1 Prototype 1.7's Function#bind (which overwrites native bind too) isn't as ES5 compliant as it could be because its bound function doesn't behave correctly when called as part of a new expression. function Foo(a,b,c) { this.a = a; this.b = b; this.c = c; } var Bound = Foo.bind({}, 1, 2); var b = new Bound(3); console.log(Object.keys(b)); // [], but should be ['a', 'b', 'c'] console.log(b.c) // undefined, but should be 3 - JDD _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss