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Re: What's wrong with this code?

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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:
>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> You might (in some very odd implementation) get 'null' from typeof, but
>>> that's only because the result is up to the implementation in some very
>>> specific cases.
>> To be exact, a conforming implementation of ECMAScript could only provide
>> "null" as the result of a “typeof” operation if the operand was a
>> reference to a host object.
> 
> To be more exact, only if the reference is to a host object that does
> not implement [[Call]].  For references to callable object, both native
> and host, the result must be 'function'.

True.  So much for theory.  In practice, the result is "object" for callable 
host objects in the MSHTML DOM until MSHTML 8.0.x inclusive.

<http://PointedEars.de/wsvn/JSX/trunk/types.js?rev=15>
<http://PointedEars.de/wsvn/JSX/trunk/object.js>

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What's wrong with this code? denissavenok@gmail.com - 2015-02-26 01:18 -0800
  Re: What's wrong with this code? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-26 12:17 +0100
  Re: What's wrong with this code? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-02-26 14:25 +0000
    Re: What's wrong with this code? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-26 16:04 +0100
      Re: What's wrong with this code? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-02-26 15:37 +0000
        Re: What's wrong with this code? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-26 17:09 +0100
  Re: What's wrong with this code? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-02-26 14:09 -0300

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