String objects should be ordinary

# Jason Orendorff (11 years ago)

String objects are exotic:

people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-string-exotic-objects

Suppose we make them ordinary. No change in behvaior: we can make StringCreate define all the indexed properties on every String object as it's created, right?

Wouldn't that be better?

It seems like what these sections are trying to achieve is conceptually simple, and expressible in terms of ordinary properties, and so the spec should just say that... I could be missing something though.

String objects are exotic:

http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-string-exotic-objects

Suppose we make them ordinary. No change in behvaior: we can make
StringCreate define all the indexed properties on every String object
as it's created, right?

Wouldn't that be better?

It seems like what these sections are trying to achieve is
conceptually simple, and expressible in terms of ordinary properties,
and so the spec should just say that... I could be missing something
though.

-j

# Allen Wirfs-Brock (11 years ago)

This sounds like a reasonable alternative way to approach specifying ES strings. However, it doesn’t seem like a critical issue to explore at this time. Given how close we are to having to deliver the final ES6 draft I don’t think it is something I want to consider changing at this time.

This sounds like a reasonable alternative way to approach specifying ES strings.  However, it doesn’t seem like a critical issue to explore at this time.  Given how close we are to having to deliver the final ES6 draft I don’t think it is something I want to consider changing at this time.

Allen

On Nov 20, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:

> String objects are exotic:
> 
> http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-string-exotic-objects
> 
> Suppose we make them ordinary. No change in behvaior: we can make
> StringCreate define all the indexed properties on every String object
> as it's created, right?
> 
> Wouldn't that be better?
> 
> It seems like what these sections are trying to achieve is
> conceptually simple, and expressible in terms of ordinary properties,
> and so the spec should just say that... I could be missing something
> though.
> 
> -j
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