Would some like Object.inspect(myObj) be useful?

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

On Jun 14, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> Hemanth H.M wrote:
>> var info = { name: "Hemanth", url: "http://h3manth.com/", location : "Earth", get : function() {} };
>> Object.keys(info)
>> ["name", "url", "location", "get"]
>> 
>> Now, it's not clear about the 'type' of the keys; name is a String, where as get is a function.
>> 
>> Compared to something like inspect module in python that give o/p like :
>> 
>> ('__delslice__', <method-wrapper '__delslice__' of list object at 0x1005252d8>)
> 
> Python's repr convention is missed in JS, but instead of trying to force everything into a standard string representation, how about just building on ES5 (already mailed to you, sharing with list here):
> 
> js> o = {p:1, q:2, get r(){return 3}}
> ({p:1, q:2, get r () {return 3;}})
> js> function inspect(o) {
>  var a = [];
>  Object.getOwnPropertyNames(o).forEach(function (k) {
>    a.push(Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(o, k));

You probably want to make the above line:
a.[k] = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(o,k}

This should give you a descriptor that can be passed back into Object.defineProperties

Also initialize a to { }.  

Allen