CreateFromConstructor

# Axel Rauschmayer (11 years ago)

people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-createfromconstructor, people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-createfromconstructor

Isn’t the name of that operation misleading? How about the following changes?

  • Rename CreateFromConstructor to CreateViaCreateAction.
  • Throw an exception in step 3.

CreateFromConstructor is only used in two locations:

  • 7.3.18 Construct (F, argumentsList)
    • Change step 2 so that CreateViaCreateAction is called if F has a property [[CreateAction]] and OrdinaryCreateFromConstructor otherwise.
  • 25.4.1.6 NewPromiseCapability ( C )
    • CreateFromConstructor being used here effectively means that you must subclass Promise (the note sounds like that is desired). CreatePromiseCapabilityRecord re-implements the constructor protocol. I’d prefer it if that duplication of functionality didn’t happen and (e.g.) Construct() could be used, but that may be too complicated a change.