I think the main concern was:
> Currently I can't see a way of getting default parameters as an iterable
object.
and indeed `arguments` is not the magic variable you are looking for.
However, you are inside your own defined function so either you don't
specify defaults, or you iterate over `[a, b]` ?
Interesting enough, there's no actually a way to understand the function
signature, in terms of optionally accepted arguments.
`arguments.length` is one and same is for `foo.length` so if we'd like to
understand if anyone invoked the function passing or not all optional
parameters, how could we proceed?
Lets say `foo` would like to delegate its own arguments including defined
defaults to another function ... how can we grab these at runtime?
I think the answer is still a static `[a, b]` as list of arguments to
apply, but I can see some lack of "reflection" capability ... or maybe
Reflect would solve this?
Regards
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:40 AM Robin Cafolla <ro...@zombiemongoose.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I was wondering if there were any plans to modify `arguments` to include
>> default parameters (e.g. changing it from a simpleParameterList) or to
>> include a new property that does allow iteration of all values available to
>> a function.
>>
>> for example:
>>
>> function foo( a, b = 2 ) {
>> return arguments;
>> }
>>
>> console.log( foo( 1 ) ); // outputs [ 1 ], not [ 1, 2 ]
>>
>> Currently I can't see a way of getting default parameters as an iterable
>> object.
>>
>> I filed a bug with Mozilla over this, but they pointed out that the
>> behaviour matches the spec.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1144672
>>
>
>
> This is correct, because only one _argument_ was passed, therefore the
> arguments object has only one entry. Parameters are not the same as
> Arguments.
>
> Therefore:
>
> foo(1, 3) => [1, 3]
>
> Because two arguments were passed. And:
>
> foo(1, 2, 3) => [1, 2, 3]
>
> Because three were passed.
>
> Hopefully that helps clarify?
>
> Rick
>
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