Detecting the "type" of a DOM object

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

On Jun 22, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Brandon Benvie wrote:

> While the issue identified may not be particularly related to multiple inheritance, the issue in general I think is a looming one in terms of the goal of being able to self-host the DOM in JS. It seems to be becoming more and more common for various kinds of partial interfaces/supplement/implements to be used in newer IDLs and many of those are difficult/impossible to fully represent in JavaScript without a lot of redundancy or backflips.

At the ES language level, the real question is whether the instanceof operator has a single semantics regardless of which objects it is applied to or whether it is an overloadable operator whose meaning is determined by its RHS operand.  We should make a clear cut choice between those to alternatives.  The legacy ES specification goes in the direction of the overloadable alternative.

Allen