Re: jsdIScript.functionName semantics

John J. Barton wrote:
> James Ross wrote:
>> Venkman identifies __top_level__ scripts by their name (i.e. empty), 
>> but uses some logic about sealed scripts I don't follow to pick out 
>> the eval scripts.
> 
> Oh that's a great hint.  I could not figure out what Venkman was up to. 
> But now I have a guess.  It analyzes all scripts on creation.  It uses 
> the first empty name to mark __top_level__.  Because it knows that no 
> function at compile time will be empty name except top level and that 
> script comes last in the compile sequence. At the same time it marks the 
> page ("instance") as "sealed", ie "I saw the top level".  After that all 
> scripts that are created must be EvalScript. (Granted there is some 
> funky code about _lastScriptWrapper but it seems consistent with this 
> model).
> 
> The key assertion is "no function at compile time will be empty name 
> except top level". Or "every empty name other than top level must be 
> from runtime, ie eval".
> 
> You buying that ;-)

I'll buy that alright; I never did log all the script wrapper and 
instances and sealing stuff, but counting all non-function scripts after 
the first as evals would fit.

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James Ross <[email protected]>
ChatZilla Developer