Re: an idea for replacing arguments.length

On Nov 11, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:

> That is excellent! Has all the upsides of the best of the other proposals and none of the downsides.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Corey Frang <gnarf37@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to provide another way of working around it:
> 
> var empty = {}; // or even a symbol?
> 
> function splice(start = empty, count = 0, ...items) {
>   if (start === empty) { ...
> }
> 

No, this doesn't work because then both
     [1,2,3].splice()
     [1.2.3].splice(undefined)

will both result in start === empty.  But for web compatibility they must be treated differently.

Allen

Received on Monday, 11 November 2013 17:22:29 UTC