- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:31:59 -0400
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>
On 6/21/12 12:03 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> There's a common problem where someone has an object and they would like >> to tell whether it's a Node (or an Array or a Date or whatever). Right >> now, the way to do that is to use instanceof.... but with a huge caveat: >> you have to pull the Node or Array or whatnot off the right global object. >> >> I was wondering whether it would make sense to expose, on DOM >> constructor objects, a method that lets you test whether some other >> object is of that type. > > Would you prefer such a method over having a proper `instanceof`-like > operator on the language level that does not have the problem you cite? No. If we can come up with a language-level solution to this, that would be vastly preferable. In my opinion. -Boris
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