Subj : Re: Strange Rhino NativeString behavior
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Andy Madigan
Date : Mon Oct 25 2004 08:58 pm


--- Matt McShane <mmcshane@email.com> wrote:
> In the meantime, if I were to try to hack a "no primitives" mode into
> 
> Rhino (don't know how hard that would be - haven't even started
> looking) 
> would anyone be interested in hearing about it? If so, I can do some
> of 
> my thinking out loud here. If not, I'll do it and shut up.

I for one would be very interested in a "no primitives" mode, and I
have been wondering why JavaScript needed primitives in the first
place, the seem especially messy with Strings. It seems one way to
implement this would be to change:
var a = "babble" from meaning a primitive string to meaning the
equivalent of 
var a = new String("babble")

.