const {resolve} = Promise; // fails

[T.J. Crowder]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Andrea Giammarchi
<andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why cannot Promise methods fallback to Promise constructor when the
> class/context is not available?

That sounds reasonable on first glance, but I'd be concerned about what
happens when you do it after subclassing:

```js
class MyPromise extends Promise {
    // ...and adds some important feature...
}
// ...
const {resolve, reject} = MyPromise;
const p = resolve();
p.someImportantFeature(/*...*/); // TypeError: undefined is not a function
```

...since `resolve` fell back to `Promise`. That feels like a footgun.
Either subclassers would have to handle that, which they will forget to do,
or it has to be a bit more complicated than just a simple fallback to `
Promise` (I don't immediately know what that "more complicated" answer
would be.)

-- T.J. Crowder
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