With something that while unintuitive in one case, is eternally robust and
reliable.

If you want extensibility, define Symbol.toStringTag on your objects.

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 1:23 PM Michael Haufe <t...@thenewobjective.com>
wrote:

> If it's unfixably broken[1], non-extensible, excessively vague, and
> non-orthogonal, where does that leave you?
>
>
>
> [1] <https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/798317702775324672>
>
>
>
> *From:* Jordan Harband <ljh...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 27, 2019 3:00 PM
> *To:* Michael Haufe <t...@thenewobjective.com>
> *Cc:* ViliusCreator <viliuskubilius...@gmail.com>; es-discuss@mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: Proposal: Typeof Trap
>
>
>
> Those two PRs are about removing implementation-defined behavior from
> `typeof`, making it *more* reliable - there is no trend away from using and
> relying on `typeof`, full stop.
>
>
>
> `Symbol.hasInstance` is a part of why `instanceof` is actually unreliable
> - because user code can hook into it. It would be a massive loss imo if
> `typeof` lost its bulletproof status by adding a user hook.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:37 PM Michael Haufe <t...@thenewobjective.com>
> wrote:
>
> The trend seems to be to rely on typeof less and less as time passes:
>
>
>
> From the  March 2019 Agenda <
> https://github.com/tc39/agendas/blob/274e49412c09f81a0a82f386e6eead481c69adad/2019/03.md
> >:
>
>
>
> “Implementation-defined typeof still necessary?” <
> https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/1440>
>
> “Normative: Remove implementation-defined typeof behavior” <
> https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/1441>
>
>
>
>
>
> The only real discussion around this I can find is from a related proposal
> from Brendan Eich a few years ago:
>
>
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> https://esdiscuss.org/topic/typeof-extensibility-building-on-my-value-objects-slides-from-thursday-s-tc39-meeting
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>
> *From:* ViliusCreator <viliuskubilius...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 27, 2019 2:04 PM
> *To:* Michael Haufe <t...@thenewobjective.com>
> *Subject:* RE: Proposal: Typeof Trap
>
>
>
> *Yes, but it traps `typeof `, not `instanceof`. There’s difference there.*
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