On May 31, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Russell Leggett wrote: > If you reframe the problem as |this| just being another parameter, this whole > debate seems quite silly to me. Any function that is written to have a |this| > value be dynamic, and possibly set by the caller can be rewritten as a > function that does not use |this| and simply has an extra parameter. Framing > it this way, asking for an isBound method is no more useful than having a > method isParamUsed(n) which checks if the nth parameter is used in the > function body.
+1 > I think it would lead to brittle code to try to ask the function if it uses > |this| as some means of overloading/duck typing. That is too much > introspection into the implementation. Beautifully put, thank you. The idea of trying to provide API's that try to infer complicated, uncomputable contracts about the intended use of a function is a fool's errand. Dave _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
