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Total JS noob here, but porting my hairy Common Lisp Cells (dataflow)
package -- long intro on my blog:

http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/20...manifesto.html

....so I am getting into some fun stuff straight-away.

I am happy to see _defineGetter_/Setter_ here:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...Objects:Object

Those are crucial to the transparency of my hack, but there it mentions
they are "Non-standard". I would like Cells/js to be portable -- is this
something to be concerned about?

kenny

--
http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/
http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/

"I've never read the rulebook. My job is to catch the ball."
-- Catcher Josh Bard after making a great catch on a foul ball
he might have let drop and then sliding into the dugout, which
by the rules allowed the runners to advance one base costing his
pitcher a possible shutout because there was a runner
on third base.

"My sig is longer than most of my articles."
-- Kenny Tilton

Ken Tilton <> writes:

> Total JS noob here, but porting my hairy Common Lisp Cells (dataflow)
> package -- long intro on my blog:
>
> http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/20...manifesto.html
>
> ...so I am getting into some fun stuff straight-away.
>
> I am happy to see _defineGetter_/Setter_ here:
>
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...Objects:Object
>
> Those are crucial to the transparency of my hack, but there it
> mentions they are "Non-standard". I would like Cells/js to be portable
> -- is this something to be concerned about?

Yup. It's *completely* useless for general purposes. Which (as usual)
means it doesn't work in MS Internet Explorer, which has something like
90% of the user base.

In general, for language level stuff like this, if it isn't mentioned in
ecma-262, you can more or less bet on it not being available in a
significant portion of browsers (and IE doesn't even support all of
it correctly, but AFAICT nothing really significant).

http://www.ecma-international.org/pu...s/Ecma-262.htm


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Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/

Joost Diepenmaat wrote:
> Ken Tilton <> writes:
>
>
>>Total JS noob here, but porting my hairy Common Lisp Cells (dataflow)
>>package -- long intro on my blog:
>>
>> http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/20...manifesto.html
>>
>>...so I am getting into some fun stuff straight-away.
>>
>>I am happy to see _defineGetter_/Setter_ here:
>>
>>http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...Objects:Object
>>
>>Those are crucial to the transparency of my hack, but there it
>>mentions they are "Non-standard". I would like Cells/js to be portable
>>-- is this something to be concerned about?
>
>
> Yup. It's *completely* useless for general purposes. Which (as usual)
> means it doesn't work in MS Internet Explorer, which has something like
> 90% of the user base.
>
> In general, for language level stuff like this, if it isn't mentioned in
> ecma-262, you can more or less bet on it not being available in a
> significant portion of browsers (and IE doesn't even support all of
> it correctly, but AFAICT nothing really significant).
>
> http://www.ecma-international.org/pu...s/Ecma-262.htm
>
>

Joost! Long time no. Thx, I was having no luck finding a nice solid
JS reference.

And thanks for heading me off form a dead end on the get/set deal.

kenny

--
http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/
http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/

"I've never read the rulebook. My job is to catch the ball."
-- Catcher Josh Bard after making a great catch on a foul ball
and then sliding into the dugout, which by the rules allowed the
runners to advance one base costing his pitcher a possible shutout
because there was a runner on third base.

"My sig is longer than most of my articles."
-- Kenny Tilton