Closed Bug 56878 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

ECMA Conformance bug: Object.prototype.toLocaleString() undefined

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect, P3)

defect

Tracking

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VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: david, Assigned: rogerl)

Details

js 1.5 rc1 does not conform to ECMA V3 15.2.4.3: it does not 
define Object.prototype.toLocaleString()
Compare bug 44623, bug 44624 
Here is the section from the ECMA3 document:


15.2.4.3 Object.prototype.toLocaleString ( )

This function returns the result of calling toString().

NOTE This function is provided to give all Objects a generic toLocaleString
interface, even though not all may use it.

Currently, Array, Number, and Date provide their own locale-sensitive
toLocaleString methods.

NOTE The first parameter to this function is likely to be used in a future
version of this standard; it is recommended that implementations do not use
this parameter position for anything else.
It looks like this was fixed as of Release Candidate 2 (2000-08-11).
See:

                ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/js/js-1.5-rc2.tar.gz

(Or check Mozilla mirror sites at 

                http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html
)

Using Release Candidate 2, and the current trunk of JS, I got this:


                js> var o = new Object()

                js> o.toString()
                [object Object]

                js> o.toLocaleString()
                [object Object]

                js> o.__proto__.toLocaleString()
                [object Object]

                js> Object.prototype.toLocaleString()
                [object Object]



A check of the CVS log for jsobj.c shows the change was checked in 
on 2000-08-09. See rev 3.55 at:  

       http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla/js/src/jsobj.c
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Marking Verified -
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Actually, the js-1.5-rc2 tarball on ftp.mozilla.org does not have
this fix in it.  In fact, that tarball still reports itself as "pre-release 1".
I've downloaded it twice to verify.  The version of jsobj.c in the tarball is
dated July 21st, so it doesn't include the patch described.
Thank you - I'll see about re-doing the tarball. For Release Candidate 2,
what I'm using is a direct CVS pull on this branch:

                             -r JS_150_RC2
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