On Apr 22, 2013, at 17:39 , Jeff Walden wrote: > On 04/22/2013 04:34 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >> 3) Related to that, some properties are documented as part of the wrong >> object. For example, the String.prototype documentation shows a length >> property. String.prototype doesn't have this property; String instances do. > > String.prototype is a String object. String objects have a length property. > So that's correct, as far as it goes. (It's kind of useless to explicitly > call out "length" as a property of String.prototype, I think, but it's > correct to say so.)
You're right. I should have said that it doesn't matter that String.prototype has a length because every String instance/value has its own length, and that's the one you actually work with. Documenting it in the same way as the constructor property doesn't reflect the actual design. Norbert _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
