Re: [TLS] Conflicts between W3C specs and ES5?

[David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah at jacaranda.org>]

Oops, wrong mailing list. Sorry about that.

David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> Brendan Eich wrote:
>> On Nov 17, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>>>>> otherWindow.copyOfEvalFromYetAnotherWindow("...") throws
> [...]
>>>> What is the rationale for throwing in this last case, rather than
>>>> using the explicit base object (otherWindow) as |this|?
> [...]
>> The standard ECMA-262 semantics want otherWindow -- "bound method"
>> exceptions prove the rule.
> 
> There are bound methods in ES implementations? I'm all ears.
> 
> 
> (One thing I've never understood is why ES implementors add features
> or exceptional behaviour that users of the language could only find,
> or even know to look for, by reverse engineering or guesswork. What's
> the point? Doesn't it take more work to add all this stuff?)

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