Subj : Re: Creating classes/namespaces on the fly from existing functions?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Fri Jan 07 2005 10:09 am

bubbfree@gmail.com wrote:
> Very cool. That works perfectly. Thanks Brendan.
> 
> What's your opinion of the 2nd part, where instead of explicitly asking
> the user to call addLibrary(...), I trap an error call and attempt to
> do the lookup myself?


I think it's better to have an explicit "import" mechanism.  JS2 does, 
trying to keep that in ECMA Edition 4.  See 
http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/ .


> I was digging around and also noticed JS_SetDebugErrorHook() in the
> debug API files. From the .c's it looks like this is called before a
> real error is thrown.


That's for the debugger, not for general API consumers.

/be

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