Subj : Re: Get, Put methods of the Scriptable interface
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon Sep 01 2003 03:43 pm

Eric Merritt wrote:

>Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net> wrote in message news:<bittef$f8u4@ripley.netscape.com>...
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>>You could give the methods and other "unindexed" properties negative 
>>indexes.  But do you really need every property to have two identifiers, 
>>an index and a name?
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>>/be
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>I was under the impression that it wasnt optional. If I had my
>druthers I would just ignore indexed values for non-data properties.
>Does the engine not use the index values to retrieve function objects?
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The engine (either Rhino or SpiderMonkey) doesn't assign any identifiers 
you don't tell it about when creating properties.  There is no built-in 
aliasing of obj.firstNamedProp and obj[0] when you set obj.firstNamedProp.

/be

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