Renaming [[GetOwnProperty]]

# Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu (14 years ago)

(Sending on behalf* of Franky <qjy1111 at hotmail.com>)

Dear everyone who diligently worked on ECMAScript Edition5,

I am often confused by the name of the internal method [GetOwnProperty]. This name, if read literally, would indicate that this method gets a property, but in fact this method returns a property descriptor instead. Therefore, I am wondering if it should be renamed [[GetOwnPropertyDescriptor]] or [[GetOwnPropretyDesc]]?

Thank you for spending your precious time in reading this letter.

Franky. 2012-02-01

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