(Oops, forgot to reply all, so repost)
But the syntax you propose is redundant, since you can define a own() method
returning an iterator (for for...in) and a getOwn() method to do the same
thing. Or, if you think getOwn() is ugly, you can customize the own() method
to also return a "view" object:
YR Chen wrote:
> There's no separate "namespace" for enumerable properties.
This is about something else, something that's come up several
times in the discussion archives. See for example this post:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es4-discuss/2007-March/000578.html
> Also, let's not add synta
There's no separate "namespace" for enumerable properties. They are
properties with a hidden enumerable flag set. With that said, in ES4, only
non-fixed properties in the public namespace will be enumerable by default.
That means that properties defined in classes will not be enumerable unless
pref
I think this would be useful:
Get an enumerable property:
var x = myDict [*enumerable] .someName;
var x = myDict [*enumerable] [someVariable];
Call the non-enumerable .toString():
var x = myDict [*!enumerable] .toString();
Distinguish between owned and inherited properties:
