ECMAScript Proposal for Silent Property Access on Null/undefined
2 points · Open discussionecmascript-undefined-propagation
ECMAScript proposal to relax the rules to return `undefined` for property access on `null` or `undefined` instead of throwing.
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What it is
ECMAScript proposal to relax the rules to return `undefined` for property access on `null` or `undefined` instead of throwing.
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Observed mentions: 2016-07-02 08:53:50 UTC to 2016-07-20 16:31:05 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2 | 2016-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-03 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 3 | 2016-07-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 4 | 2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 5 | 2016-07-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 6 | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7 | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8 | 2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9 | 2016-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 10 | 2016-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 11 | 2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 12 | 2016-07-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 13 | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 14 | 2016-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 15 | 2016-07-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16 | 2016-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 17 | 2016-07-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 18 | 2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 19 | 2016-07-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 20 | 2016-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesSilent Property Access on Null/undefined for JavaScript
1 points · Open discussion