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Re: typeof null

by Brendan Eich-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Constants? We don't need no stinking constants! :-P Manifest strings, a
la typeof, are the natural and self-describing upgrade path, if we're
talking typeof (see Subject).

The Reflect namespace object is part of direct proxies, also populated
in SpiderMonkey (not web-facing) by Reflect.parse to get an AST for a
given source string. We could indeed put type-reflecting method(s) there
but I'm loath to add manifest constants. What's wrong with strings?

/be

Axel Rauschmayer wrote:
> That is, it would map primitive values to Primitive.* constants (or
> something similar, e.g. from a reflection API) and objects o to
> o.constructor.
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