Indexed string pseudo properties and for-in, was RE: Comments on April ES5 final draft standard tc39-2009-025

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

As currently specified, they are to be enumerated by for-in. This is intentional and I believe we discussed it at some past TC-39 meeting. If we are treating the string characters as indexible readonly properties then for-in-ing over them seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  This is one of the advantages of using [[GetOwnProperty]] in this manner rather than trying to support direct string indexing using some other specification mechanism -- they just naturally integrate into property access anywhere it occurs in the specification.  

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>15.5.5.2 [[GetOwnProperty]] ( P )
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>> 9. Return a Property Descriptor { [[Value]]: resultStr,
>[[Enumerable]]: true, [[Writable]]: false, [[Configurable]]: false }
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>Since these numeric pseudo-properties are not enumerated by for-in
>loops, we should describe them as non-enumerable.
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