Closed Bug 582717 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Make regular expressions not callable

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(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED FIXED
Future

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(Reporter: Waldo, Assigned: Waldo)

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Details

(Keywords: dev-doc-complete, Whiteboard: fixed-in-tracemonkey)

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(1 file, 1 obsolete file)

Attached patch Patch (obsolete) (deleted) — Splinter Review
JägerMonkey is running into bugs and failures due solely to regular expression callability. The feature is of dubious value (just call exec directly on the regular expression for identical effect), and nobody else does it, so we should remove this obstacle to success rather than spend time making it work.
Attachment #460982 - Flags: review?(brendan)
Nobody else does it? $ ./jsc > /hi/("hi") hi V8 too (typeof difference last noted in es-discuss, maybe they've fixed). Your opinion on dubious value is noted (I called callable regexps a mistake, so I see and raise :-P) but not relevant to whether we can afford to get rid of this. If we try and fail we will waste time, potentially of a lot of people. Google codesearch is hard to use for this -- regular expression matching a regexp called with ( right after the closing / is tricky to write. Anyone have greater regex skilz succeed in finding /re/(s) instances? Cc'ing Ollie again. There may be webkit history not in bugs.webkit.org (or not easily found there) showing sites that use callable regexps. /be
(In reply to comment #1) > Nobody else does it? > > $ ./jsc > > /hi/("hi") > hi > > V8 too (typeof difference last noted in es-discuss, maybe they've fixed). Hum, last I remembered no one else had done it. I guess that's changed in the meantime.
Anyway, it sounds like dmandelin is making JM call regexps so why would we take on more risk here for Firefox 4? Let's stay on target. For Firefox 5 and (this is && so both are needed) in concert with JSC, we can try in early nightlies. /be
(In reply to comment #3) > Anyway, it sounds like dmandelin is making JM call regexps so why would we take > on more risk here for Firefox 4? As an aside, it turns out there is nothing magical at all about having regexps callable in JM--they are already callable--the bug there is something more like the function getting called twice, when it shouldn't, so that must be fixed anyway.
Comment on attachment 460982 [details] [diff] [review] Patch We do not need to spend time on this right now. Comment 0 is not well-founded per comment 4. My position is the same as it was in comment 3. /be
Attachment #460982 - Flags: review?(brendan)
Ollie wants to get rid of callable regexps from JSC. Mark says V8 will do the same. We should coordinate on schedule. It'll be after our current releases in beta... /be
Target Milestone: mozilla2.0b3 → Future
Just to be clear, I didn't actually say that they would. But I will relay the news and help coordinate. Thanks!
Attached patch Do the deed (deleted) — Splinter Review
Attachment #460982 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #516362 - Flags: review?(brendan)
Comment on attachment 516362 [details] [diff] [review] Do the deed Nice. js_TypeOf is (apart from being a C-smelling function not a method) finally a thing of beauty. MEGO at the tests, rs=me there. dev-doc-needed and cite the WebKit change for a united front. Is v8 fixing too? Is tm open for post-moz2/fx4 changes now? /be
Attachment #516362 - Flags: review?(brendan) → review+
/topic in #jsapi, and denizens of #jsapi, say it is. Out of an abundance of caution (and a relative lack of patches ready for immediate pushing, plus a bunch awaiting review) I'm going to hold off on pushing for a little bit longer, tho.
http://hg.mozilla.org/tracemonkey/rev/001bfbd35ed9 I'll get to docs soon, although I expect an eventual curator will come around to update the inevitable "What's New in Firefox 5.0" documents whose location I don't know (and which likely don't exist yet).
Keywords: dev-doc-needed
Whiteboard: fixed-in-tracemonkey
Blocks: 639474
No longer blocks: 639474
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Depends on: 646509
note that this caused bug 646509
Looking through documentation, it *appears* that regular expressions being callable was never documented; if it is, it's well obscured. Do we have a WebKit bug number for the corresponding change to WebKit? A note has been placed for now on the Firefox 5 for developers page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_5_for_developers#JavaScript
(In reply to comment #15) > Looking through documentation, it *appears* that regular expressions being > callable was never documented; if it is, it's well obscured. This feature is actually explicitly documented on MDN, so that should be corrected now too: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Regexp/exec
(In reply to comment #17) I just went through MDN docs for RegExp::exec to see if I can help with the corrections and noticed that some changes were already made to reflect this bug there, but probably because they were kind of sporadic there are still traces of the old syntax there. May be it would be better to revert to the original version with the callable syntax and just mark it as obsolete as opposed to trying to silently exterminate every visual trace of it now? This syntax was on that page for some 5 years and even though it appears to be not extremely popular, it has been a very well known Mozilla extension to JS (to the extent of being replicated in the majority of other engines, obviously).
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