Subj : Re: problem with string objects loosing their properties
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Sat Jun 21 2003 02:36 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:

> Log String.prototype and String.prototype.split whenever you find a 
> string literal that seems to lack a length property.

So another obvious thing to test: "hello".__proto__ === String.prototype 
(and log uneval("hello".__proto__) if not).

/be

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