On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Dmitry Soshnikov <dmitry.soshni...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think by `@@toStringTag` he meant the ability to define a `[[Class]]`
>> name so that `{}.toString.call(generic)` would return such name instead of
>> `Object` but I'm sure Dmitry will come back explaining and/or asking more.
>>
>
> Yeah, so basically current `O.p.toString` [1] in step 14 delegates to the
> `@@toStringTag`. Which means user-classes have ability to ad-hoc the result
> of using _default_ `toString` from `O.p`.
>
> In a class users have to put it manually at the moment:
>
> ```
> class Point {
> constructor(x, y) {
> this._x = x;
> this._y = y;
> }
>
> toString() {
> return '<Point ' + this._x + ', ' + this._y + '>';
> }
>
> [Symbol.toStringTag]() {
> return 'Point';
> }
>
This one seems should be a getter actually based on the algorithm of
`O.p.toString`:
```
get [Symbol.toStringTag]() {
return 'Point';
}
```
Dmitry
> }
>
> var p = new Point(10, 20);
>
> console.log(p.toString()); // '<Point 10, 20>'
> console.log(({}).toString.call(p)); // '[object Point]'
> ```
>
> Notice how the implementation defines its own `toString`, and at the same
> time provides the ability to test the type tag with the `O.p.toString`.
>
> So my proposal is to provide default implicit implementation of that
> `Symbol.toStringTag` method (which is `@@toStringTag` in the spec).
>
> Dmitry
>
> [1]
> https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-object.prototype.tostring
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Claude Pache <claude.pa...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > Le 2 déc. 2014 à 08:46, Dmitry Soshnikov <dmitry.soshni...@gmail.com>
>>> a écrit :
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Probably worth providing a default implementation of the
>>> `@@toStringTag` when evaluating a class [1]. In this case users will be
>>> able to do:
>>> >
>>> > ```
>>> > class Point { ... }
>>> >
>>> > var p = new Point(1, 2);
>>> > console.log(p); // "[object Point]"
>>> > ```
>>>
>>> You seem to imply that `console.log(p)` will show the result of
>>> `p.toString()` in the console. But it is not the case for the majority of
>>> browsers.
>>>
>>> I've just tried:
>>>
>>> ```
>>> var Point = function() {}
>>> Point.prototype.toString = function() { return "(this is an object of
>>> type Point)" }
>>> console.log(new Point)
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Results are:
>>>
>>> Firefox: Object { }
>>> Chrome: Point{toString: function}
>>> Safari: Object
>>> IE: [object Object] (this is an object of type Point)
>>>
>>> In particular, note that Chrome doesn't need the help of `.toString()`
>>> in order to log useful information.
>>>
>>> —Claude
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>>
>>
>
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