- From: Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 17:23:10 +0000
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>
- CC: Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> > No, I'm saying there would be another primitive operation, similar to the extended structured cloning proposed elsewhere, to accomplish cloning without side effects. You are referring to https://github.com/dslomov-chromium/ecmascript-structured-clone ? That invokes the constructors. (It uses the imprecise ES5-era "let output be a new Array..." language, but if upgraded to ES6 that becomes "let output be Construct(%Array%, 0)", and similar.) There's really no way to get objects of the right class without either: 1. Invoking the constructor; or 2. Proto-swizzling an object that was allocated without using the constructor. 2 is broken in many ways if we allow user-defined constructors. (This is is why the "Dmitry proposal" specifically disallows user-defined constructors, in favor of inheriting the HTMLElement constructor.) So is your proposal 1 or 2?
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