Proxies fail comparison operator

[Alexander Jones]

I would really hope that `===` can never be trapped. So much code would
break! (Then again, I thought that about toString... :/)

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 at 15:21, Michael Lewis <mike at lew42.com> wrote:

> Proxies do not reflect internal slots (Oriol)
>
>
>  You really don't *want* proxies to equal their underlying objects:
> proxies can show properties that the underlying object doesn't have, hide
> properties that the underlying object does have, alter the appearance of
> other proxies, etc.  (Alex Vincent)
>
>
> What you really want to ask for is for JavaScript support for overriding
> the comparison operator for a class. (and other operators, too...)
>  (Michael Kriegel)
>
>
>
> Sounds like the purpose of Proxies evades me and unfortunately, I don't
> have time to read up on it, but thanks for the link, Allen.  Any article
> that begins with the word *abstract* scares me.
>
> Yes, Michael, I think *operator traps* for the proxies would be a perfect
> solution.  Then I could let my proxies === my targets, woohoo!
>
> Thanks everyone, great feedback.
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Michael Kriegel <
> michael.kriegel at actifsource.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with everyone, that the proxy object should not equal the proxied
> object.
>
> What you really want to ask for is for JavaScript support for overriding
> the comparison operator for a class. (and other operators, too...)
>
> On 30.03.2017 21:44, Michael Lewis wrote:
>
> I don't believe Proxies are designed to give you any encapsulation to a
> user who also has a reference to the target object
>
>
> So the Proxy wasn't designed to proxy real objects that operate with real
> code?
>
> `myRealFunction(obj)` <---> `myRealFunction(proxy)`
>
> This could be incredibly useful.  You could log every get/set/method call
> on the obj.  And, this *will* work in 99% of use cases.  Just cross your
> fingers that your code doesn't use the comparison operator.
>
> you'd have to never provide the reference to the target object in the
> first place.
>
>
> Yea, that's what I'm doing.  But inside a constructor, you basically have
> to create the proxy first thing, call all initialization logic on the proxy
> instead of `this`, and return the proxy.  And when you're only proxying if
> `log: true` has been set, you have to maybe proxy, but maybe not.  I can
> work around it, but I'm not happy about it ;)
>
> ljharb ftw!  (I am delevoper on IRC, the one frequently ranting about the
> software revolution)
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Jordan Harband <ljharb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't believe Proxies are designed to give you any encapsulation to a
> user who also has a reference to the target object - you'd have to never
> provide the reference to the target object in the first place.
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Michael Lewis <mike at lew42.com> wrote:
>
> Hello community,
>
> The proxy is almost an identical to the underlying object, but it* fails
> a comparison check with the underlying object.*
>
> This means that if anyone gets a reference to the underlying object before
> it is proxied, then we have a problem.  For example:
>
> var obj = {};
> var proxy = new Proxy(obj, {});
> obj == proxy; // false
>
> *Isn't the purpose of the proxy to be exchanged with the original**,
> without any negative side effects?  *Maybe that's not the intended use
> case, but it's a useful one.  And, besides the comparison, I can't think of
> any other "negative side effects".
>
> It seems like the Proxy could have a *comparison trap*.  The comparison
> could pass by default, and you could use the trap if you wanted to make
> `proxy == obj` fail.
>
> Also, a slight tangent: it would be awesome if you could *skip debugging
> proxy traps when stepping through code.  *When you proxy both `get` and
> `apply` for all objects/methods, you have 10x the work when trying to step
> through your code.
>
> I just subscribed to this list.  Is this an appropriate venue for this
> type of inquiry?  I appreciate any feedback.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael
>
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