pjs/js/rhino
nboyd%atg.com 0794dcd8d7 Fix following bug:
Subject:
             Re: Rhino: [[DefaultValue]] missing for Call object
 Resent-Date:
             Mon, 2 Jul 2001 08:52:07 -0700 (PDT)
 Resent-From:
             mozilla-jseng@mozilla.org
        Date:
             Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:49:59 -0400
        From:
             Norris Boyd <nboyd@atg.com>
 Organization:
             Art Technology Group
          To:
             Christopher Oliver <coliver@mminternet.com>
         CC:
             mozilla-jseng@mozilla.org
  References:
             1




I believe the correct result of the script should be

[object global]
[object Object]
[object global]

The activation object (which goes by the name of "Call" for historical
reasons) should never be the 'this' value in a function call. See "10.1.6
Activation Object" in the ECMA spec.

I'll look at fixing the problem for Rhino. If there's agreement on my
analysis, someone should fix this for Spidermonkey too.

--N

Christopher Oliver wrote:

> Hi,
>
> function a() {
>     function b() {
>          print(this);
>     }
>     this.f = function() {
>          print(this);
>          b();
>     }
>     b();
> }
>
> var a = new a();
> a.f();
>
> Running the above script with SpiderMonkey produces:
>
> [object global]
> [object Object]
> [object Call]
>
> Running with Rhino produces the following exception:
>
> uncaught JavaScript exception: undefined: Cannot find default value for
> object. (line 3)
>
> This is due to a bug in org.mozilla.javascript.NativeCall which doesn't
> implement toString or valueOf or override getDefaultValue.
> However, even after I hacked in an implementation of getDefaultValue in
> NativeCall, Rhino still produces a different result then spidermonkey:
>
> [object Call]
> [object Object]
> [object Call]
2001-07-03 02:19:51 +00:00
..
docs Updates from Christopher Oliver. 2001-07-02 13:50:23 +00:00
examples Subject: 2001-06-14 17:38:37 +00:00
macbuild Added mozilla/js/rhino/src/org/mozilla/javascript/BaseFunction.java source file. 2001-05-29 13:48:46 +00:00
src Fix following bug: 2001-07-03 02:19:51 +00:00
toolsrc Subject: 2001-07-02 13:55:20 +00:00
Makefile Twiddle Make usage message. 2000-11-29 22:36:06 +00:00
README.html Add license boilerplate. 1999-10-25 17:36:20 +00:00
apiClasses.properties Fix javadoc with new directory structure. 2001-04-25 14:36:15 +00:00
build-date Massive reconfiguration of the cvs directory structure: 2001-04-24 20:31:31 +00:00
build.xml Finish javadoc fix. 2001-04-25 17:11:34 +00:00

README.html

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<body>
<h1>
<span CLASS=LXRSHORTDESC>
Rhino: JavaScript in Java<p>
</span>
</h1>
<span CLASS=LXRLONGDESC>
Rhino is an implementation of JavaScript in Java. Documentation can be found 
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/js/rhino/rhino.html">here</a>.
</span>
</body>
</html>