- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 19:30:05 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Stewart Brodie wrote:
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> Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 24 May 2011, Stewart Brodie wrote:
> > >
> > > Do getters need to be called to obtain a value which can be stored
> > > (after being cloned itself) in the result?
> >
> > I'm not sure I follow the question. Can you elaborate?
>
> Are getters called during cloning? i.e. what do I get if I clone this:
>
> { get a() { return 1 } }
>
> Do I get { a: 1 } or do I get {} ?
Assuming "a" is an enumerable property of the object, yes, it would be
copied, which would involve calling the getter.
This causes some unfortunate side-effects, which will be fixed once I get
around to fixing this bug:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12101
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