Subj : Re: Rhino E4X bug or feature?
To   : Olinda Spider
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 05:07 pm

Olinda Spider wrote:
> I see where in ECMA-357 "ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification" that
> it does specify the differing semantics you are referring to with
> regards the normal property get process.
> 
> However, no where in ECMA-357 that I can determine is there any
> justification for the change in the behaviour of the with block.
> 
> I think it is a bug.


I agree.  Unfortunately, I was not involved with ECMA-357 till the very 
last minute, so to speak, and it was too late to change this.

However, there's a compatible fix implemented in SpiderMonkey, using the 
function:: namespace prefix.  See 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300413#c2.

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