extracting namespace from a property
Brendan Eich
brendan at mozilla.org
Thu Mar 1 04:18:19 PST 2007
On Mar 1, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
> Standard vs. string mode does not change the default for a class
> that lacks an explicit 'dynamic' qualifier.
s/string mode/strict mode/ of course
> There's a fine line. If typeof n == 'string' is not helpful, then I
> would prefer to make typeof n == 'object'. Spidering the visible
> web can only produce counter-examples showing how we might help
> someone with an incompatible "bug fix" -- it can't prove that we
> won't break someone else.
Assuming spidering does not find evidence that the change will break
public web content, of course. You can't prove a negative. Still, we
should try to find for-in ~~> typeof id == 'string' dependencies.
I'll ask our spider-guy to start looking.
/be
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