Re: This binding and ES5 builtins

On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
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>> On Jul 7, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Luke Hoban wrote:
>>>  Also, the note that “if a host supplied function is somehow converting this/undefined to the caller's global object it is doing something magical”, is concerning.  As far as I understand, with multiple globals, the web-compatible behaviour is to pass the caller-side global.
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>> No! Ah, I see Oliver replied.
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>> The situation with caller-side |this| computation in non-strict global code is not to pass null or undefined and then replace that with the dynamic scope's global object. Rather, property lookup computes a Reference for the unqualified global property name used as the callee expression, and that Reference base is the exactly the global object in which the global property was found.
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>> This is lexical not dynamic scope, in the caller evaluation context. It predates ES5 and it cannot be modeled with callee-based |this| rectification. It's why we did not "fix" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634590 is Firefox 4.
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> And if the host callable object is invoked by a funny expression, e.g.
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> (1, hostCallable)();
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> and it's a built-in, then ES3 + reality would indeed pass null for |this| in the CallExpression semantics, and (here's where ES3 dropped the ball) the real-world implementations would fall back *not* on the dynamic scope's global object, but on hostCallable's global.
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> This relied on even built-ins and host callables having a link to their global, parallel to [[Scope]] for user-defined functions.

I believe in webkit tot we get this right for most cases now -- perhaps not Array.prototype.map, etc however for something like Array() we should get it "right"

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> You can contrive a test case where the dynamic scope's global is not the same, by borrowing hostCallable from another window or frame.
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> This is still unspecified in ECMA-262 because we haven't specified multiple globals.

Which is sad making.

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> /be
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