2008/7/18 Allen Wirfs-Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We ultimately concluded that the best way to think about what we are > currently provide is that it is a set of primitive mechanisms that could be > used to build higher level reflection facilities. If we had a strong use case > we could reintroduce getOwnProperties as such a primitive, but so far it seem > non-essential. Incidentally, when we removed getOwnProperties we had to add > getOwnPropertyName because otherwise you won't necessarily know what > properties to ask for using getOwnProperty
If the goal is to define the minimal set of functions, then just create, getPrototypeOf, getOwnPropertyNames, getOwnPropertyDescriptor and defineProperty is enough. One do not need to provide getPropertyNames and getOwnPropertyDescriptor as the latter can be trivially implemented using Own methods and getPrototypeOf. But of cause then everybody would invent own clone, extend etc. So I agree with Brendan that the familiar and widely used functions should also be included to standardise their semantics. Regards, Igor _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
