On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:50 PM, P T Withington wrote:
On 2007-09-23, at 14:14 EDT, Brendan Eich wrote:
The reason for the original prototype-owned constructor was to afford
a back-pointer from prototype to constructor function without
imposing a per-instance property (which could be optimized
On 9/22/07, liorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22/09/2007, Garrett Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I've found is that it's always giving wrong constructor property
with inheritance chains.
A -- B -- C
c = (new C).constructor;// A
snip I meant an enumerable superclass property!
On 23/09/2007, Garrett Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. (new function(){}).constructor should be Function.
On Sep 23, 2007, at 8:59 AM, liorean wrote:
I agree. And in ES3 it is, unless the function either:
On 23/09/2007, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No:
js (new
On 9/23/07, liorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 23/09/2007, Garrett Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. (new function(){}).constructor should be Function.
On Sep 23, 2007, at 8:59 AM, liorean wrote:
I agree. And in ES3 it is, unless the function either:
On 23/09/2007, Brendan Eich
On 23/09/2007, Garrett Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Function objects get a non-enumerable constructor.
function F(){};
F.constructor === Function; // true
F.prototype.hasOwnProperty('constructor'); //true
F.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable(constructor); // false.
Of course.
Object
On 9/23/07, liorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 23/09/2007, Garrett Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Function objects get a non-enumerable constructor.
function F(){};
F.constructor === Function; // true
F.prototype.hasOwnProperty('constructor'); //true
On Sep 23, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
in no case is the value of (new function(){}).constructor Function.
It shouldn't be, but it is in OSX Ref Impl. (I did not build this).
js (new function(){}).constructor
[function Function]
No, that's just
On 9/23/07, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 23, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
in no case is the value of (new function(){}).constructor Function.
It shouldn't be, but it is in OSX Ref Impl. (I did not build this).
js (new function(){}).constructor
[function
