Object.allKeys? WAS Re: Object.keys(): Why no inherited properties?

[Felipe Gasper]

On 9/7/11 11:17 AM, David Bruant wrote:
> Le 07/09/2011 18:11, Felipe Gasper a écrit :
>> On 9/7/11 11:08 AM, David Bruant wrote:
>>> Le 07/09/2011 17:33, Felipe Gasper a écrit :
>>>> Why does Object.keys() not allow, as an option, iterating through
>>>> inherited properties?
>>> I do not have the answer to this very question.
>>> However, if you want to iterate through all (own and inherited)
>>> enumerable properties, you can use a for-in loop.
>>
>> Right, but for that matter, if you want Object.keys, you can just
>> write out a for-in loop as well and just do .hasOwnProperty().
>>
>> Object.keys must be considered a convenience method; it just seems
>> like there are lots of reasonable scenarios of wanting the inherited
>> properties as well as the object’s own.
>>
>> Object.allKeys(), anyone?
> Object.getPropertyNames from
> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:extended_object_api ?
>
> Or do you want to filter out non-enumerable properties?
>

Yes. ISTM there’s a legitimate case for putting a key-lister function 
that includes all inherited, non-enumerable properties.

-F