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Re: Object.defineProperties

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From Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Object.defineProperties
Date Wed, 3 May 2017 18:47:20 +0200
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On 03/05/2017 14:07, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> writes:
>> So, I can't trust what's returned by
>> Object.prototype.toString.call(obj). However, if I want to check what
>> type is an object then I can use typeof operator, but it's not quite
>> thing I want as the typeof for object type array give me "object".
>
>   I just had this idea: You can tag each prototype with your
>   own tag symbol: For example, to tag the String prototype:
>
> |> let myTag = Symbol( "myTag" );
> |> Object.getPrototypeOf( "" )[ myTag ] = "String"
>
>   Now, when we have any object, we can check its prototype for
>   our tag:
>
> |> Object.getPrototypeOf( "abc" )[ myTag ]
>
>   . No one else can mess with our tag, because they don't have
>   the symbol!
>
>   At least it seems to work for numbers and strings here:
>
> |> Object.getPrototypeOf( 1 )[ myTag ]= "Number"
>
> |> Object.getPrototypeOf( 2 )[ myTag ]
> |< Number
>
> |> Object.getPrototypeOf( "abc" )[ myTag ]
> |< String

Interesting approach. It seems it's working. Thanks.

Let's see if anyone else would have a different idea.

-- 
Cezary Tomczyk
http://www.ctomczyk.pl/
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Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 08:36 +0200
  Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 10:14 +0200
    Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 10:59 +0200
      Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 12:36 +0200
        Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 18:47 +0200
          Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-05 18:18 +0200
    Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-05 18:14 +0200
      Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 19:37 +0200
        Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-05 20:11 +0200
          Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-06 15:26 +0200
            Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-06 16:43 +0200
              Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-06 20:23 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-06 22:21 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-06 23:19 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-07 02:40 +0200
            Re: Object.defineProperties Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-05-06 22:37 +0200
              Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-06 23:05 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-05-07 00:29 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-07 10:06 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 00:50 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 13:17 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-07 02:37 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-07 09:42 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-07 17:11 +0200
                Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-07 20:08 +0200
        Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-05 20:59 +0200
          Re: Object.defineProperties John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-05-06 10:35 +0100
  Re: Object.defineProperties Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2017-05-05 08:32 +0200
  Re: Object.defineProperties Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-05 18:24 +0200

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