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Re: Style: new String( "abc" )

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Andreas Bergmaier wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn schrieb:
>> Andreas Bergmaier wrote:
>>> Current compilers don't convert anything to an
>>> object any more here, they just call the native
>>> `String.prototype.charAt` method directly on the primitive value.
>> Cite evidence.
> 
> This should get you started:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17256182/what-is-the-difference-between-string-literals-and-string-objects-in-javascript

I do not see anything there that substantiates your claim.  Instead, I see 
an answer, <http://stackoverflow.com/a/17256419/855543>, that clearly 
contradicts your claim when it says:

| I'll exemplify with V8 but I assume other engines use similar approaches.
| 
| A string primitive is parsed to a v8::String object. Hence, methods can be 
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^            ^^^^^^
| invoked directly on it as mentioned by jfriend00.

> The speed tests (http://jsperf.com/heera-string-literal-vs-object)
> linked from there speak for themselves.

To quote from one of my favorite books [1]:

| “/No/ data speaks for itself,” McCoy said, forceful. “Data just lies 
| there. /People/ speak. The idiom ‘speaks for itself’ almost /always/ 
| translates as ‘If I don’t say something about this, no one will notice
| it.’ Sloppy thinking, Selv! You are dealing with second- and third-hand 
| data. […]

I asked you to cite *evidence*, not inference and supposition.  Sloppy 
thinking, Andreas!

> You can read yourself through the V8 code, […]

That would be *one* "compiler", and what you cited already indicates that 
your claim does not apply to it in particular.

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[1] Diane DUANE. Spock’s World. Pocket Books, 1986. ISBN 9780671041137.
    p. 296
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Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2015-06-02 21:25 +0200
  Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-02 22:27 +0200
    Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2015-06-02 23:51 +0200
      Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-03 01:17 +0200
        Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2015-06-03 06:22 +0200
          Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-06-03 07:57 +0200
            Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2015-06-03 18:36 +0200
          Re: Style: new String( "abc" ) John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2015-06-03 15:38 +0100

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