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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Object.create(canvas.getContext())
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:12:55 +0100
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Jan Bruns wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
>> Jan Bruns wrote:
>>> But we're talking about a very popular API, meaning there are thousands
>>> or maybe even a million programmers out there that tried out or will
>>> try out working with it.
>  
>> The generally recommended approach is the one that I recommended to you
>> initially: create a wrapper for the host object.  Obtaining, and
>> operating on, the keys of the object is just one of the more convenient
>> implementations of that approach.
> 
> Your approach was to use the API's prototype to ask for valid API keys.
> Noone can tell if that's a host object anywhere.

This is why in iteration try-catch should be used, too.

> The API itself could be a host object, too, and isn't required to have a
> prototype object (so I can't expected it to list all the API methods).

Sadly, you have no clue what you are talking about.
 
> [further misconceptions]

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