Yehuda Katz
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Domenic Denicola <d...@domenic.me> wrote:
> I don’t think [Symbol.call] is a very good mechanism. A new syntactic form
> would make more sense.
>
> It doesn’t seem right that you should have to introduce an observable
> prototype property just to get [[Call]] behavior. (Or a constructor
> property, if you change the syntax to `static [Symbol.call]() { … }`.)
>
A new syntactic form sounds good to me :)
>
> And it raises the question of what happens when I add a [Symbol.call]
> property to other objects. What does it even mean? If I do `var obj = {
> prototype: { [Symbol.call]() { console.log("foo"); } } }`, can I now call
> `obj()`? Is `typeof obj === "function"`? Very strange stuff. Presumably not
> very VM-friendly either, but that's just a guess.
>
>
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