Subj : Re: Spidermonkey JS question
To   : I?igo Koch <ikoch@redsegura.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue Nov 04 2003 11:30 am

I?igo Koch wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need to create an object that at the same time has a string value:
>
>foo = "string1";
>foo.bar = "string2";
>
>It must be possible since browsers have a lot of these cases:
>location = "str";
>location.href = "str"; 
>etc.. 
>  
>

Mozilla uses a setter for window.location that can turn the string into 
a URL, and internally do the equivalent of 'location.href = string'.  
You can define a setter for an individual property when you define the 
property, using JS_Define*Property.  You can also define a class 
setProperty hook that special-cases based on id.

/be

>Thank you in advance for any light on this problem,
>
>regards,
>
>Iņigo Koch
>  
>

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