What does "as if by the expression" mean in ES3?

[Brendan Eich]

On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>
> Yup, that's what I missed. Thanks. That page nowhere says "lexical",
> "nest", or "shadow" so it hadn't occurred to me that it bore on this
> issue.


The issue came up when discussing the "origin value of  
Object.prototype" vs. "as if by the expression new Object", etc., but  
I failed to note it in the "which prototype" page -- sorry, I thought  
I had done that. Shadowing is mentioned in several places, including  
this ticket:

http://bugs.ecmascript.org/ticket/164

And of course the Object Literals spec.

/be
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