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

[Tom Van Cutsem]

2012/6/14 Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen at wirfs-brock.com>

>
> On Jun 14, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
>
> ...
> Thanks. Any reason this wasn't included in ES5 that you recall?
>
> Minimalism.  Object.* wasn't intended to be a comprehensive reflection
> library, just a set of essential primitives that could be used tin building
> such.
>

I think that was a good choice. There are many utility functions one may
want to build on top of ES5's set of primitives. For example, traits.js was
my attempt at providing a minimal number of utilities to treat property
descriptor maps as composable traits. (The above inspect function is
exactly traits.js's Object.getOwnProperties which lifts an object literal
into a property descriptor map, cf. <
http://soft.vub.ac.be/~tvcutsem/traitsjs/api.html>)

Cheers,
Tom
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