Subj : Re: E4X support in mozilla?
To   : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?=
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 10:46 am

Georg Maaß wrote:
> Brendan Eich wrote:
> 
>> You can't write 42() in JS and have it evaluate to 42,
> 
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> I get, what I expect:
> 
> Error: number is not a function
> 
> This is not 42.


Right -- I wrote "can't", not "can" above ;-).

Have you had a chance to try E4X in SpiderMonkey yet?  The DOM binding 
is not done yet, but you can write

<script type="text/javascript;e4x=1">
var x = <t><u id="1">one</u><u id="2">two</u><u id="3">three</u></t>;
alert(x.toXMLString());
</script>

and other such things.  E4X is also enabled in JS XPCOM components, and 
it's being used there for the Lightning project 
(http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php/Calendar:Lightning).

/be

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