Replacing uses of arguments.callee with the function name.

[mikevsamuel]

The attached patch replaces uses of arguments.callee with the shorter, and semantically equivalent use of the function's name.

Please consider this patch as it will make future compatibility with EcmaScript 5 strict mode and harmony easier.

The patch is from ​http://github.com/jquery/jquery.git as of 18 August 2010.

From the EcmaScript 5 spec: Annex C (informative) The Strict Mode of ECMAScript ...

• Arguments objects for strict mode functions define non-configurable accessor properties named "caller" and "callee" which throw a TypeError exception on access (10.6).

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[mikevsamuel]

patch to speed/jquery-basis.js

[dmethvin]

Agreed about ES5 compat, but I think all instances of arguments.callee have already been exorcised in the current 1.4.3 release. The patch seems to be against event.js but that code is closer to 1.3.2; the code doesn't look that way currently:

​http://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/event.js#L44

[mikevsamuel]

Is jquery=basis built from files under src?

I see arguments.callee at ​http://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/speed/jquery-basis.js#L2468

What should I be checking out to generate useful patches?

[john]

jquery-basis.js is an old copy of jQuery that we use for performance comparisions - not the current version of jQuery.