Action proxies

[Brendan Eich]

Tom Van Cutsem wrote:
> 2013/2/4 Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com <mailto:brendan at mozilla.com>>
>
>     If notification proxies require allocation per trap activation,
>     that's a fatal flaw in my view.
>
>
> Did you mean to say action proxies? Action proxies do require 
> allocation per trap activation, and I also considered this a fatal flaw.

I was replying to Mark, so meant notification proxies.

> Notification proxies require allocation of a post-trap when they need 
> to do something after the operation was performed on the target.

Yes, and (just to respond to Mark's somewhat premature "maybe 
notification proxies will defer proxies from ES6") that seems like a 
fatal flaw, in spite of the post-trap condition.

> The post-trap could be cached and reused, but only if the 
> post-processing is independent of the specific arguments passed to the 
> intercepted operation.

Yup.

/be