Subj : Re: Property Getter & Setter Question
To   : lyg
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Fri Nov 19 2004 07:11 pm

lyg wrote:
>    if I defined the getter and setter for a property.When I get the property
> with objName.propertyName, It will call the getter and return the property
> value, but Why to set the value to the obj->slots[slot]?
> In other word, since I have defined a getter, It seems that it is not
> neccessary to store the property value into obj->slots[slot].
> Is there someone explain the reason for me?


Backward compatibility.  Use the JSPROP_SHARED attribute if you don't 
want a slot to store the last-got-or-set value.

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