Subj : Re: updated jsgen (maybe rc1?) - beta 8
To   : Marcello Bastea-Forte <marcello@TEHSPAMcellosoft.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Fri Jan 16 2004 12:02 am

Marcello Bastea-Forte wrote:

>> I just noticed now that the child class prototype field is printing 
>> out as undefined in the following test code:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> print("start");
>> var foo = new JSTest;
>> print("\tfoo.prototype="+foo.prototype);
>

There is no property named "prototype" created by the JS engine, or per 
the ECMA standard.  Are you thinking of JSTest.prototype?  In 
SpiderMonkey, foo.__proto__ === JSTest.prototype after the new 
expression completes.

I don't know what problem you are trying to solve.  Could you state it 
simply, without lots of boilerplate?  You should be able to use 
JS_InitClass.  You should be able to walk the parent (JS_GetParent) 
chain to find the last object on a scope chain, which is the global 
object you should pass to any related JS_InitClass.

/be

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