Conflict ES5-shim(sham) 4.5.15 and ES6-shim(sham) 0.35.x

[gnh1201]

The recently released version of es5-shim 4.5.15 confirmed a conflict with es6-shim 0.35.x. It seems to be a new problem that did not occur in 4.5.14.

es5-shim(+sham)	es6-shim(+sham)	Is it works?
4.5.14	0.35.5	it works
4.5.14	0.35.6	it works
4.5.15	0.35.5	does not work
4.5.15	0.35.6	does not work

I'm going to take a closer look at what the difference is soon.

[ljharb]

I'm afraid I'll need a lot more info than "does not work" :-) I use both es5-shim and es6-shim on a number of projects, so I'm also surprised to hear there's an issue.

Here's the difference between v4.5.15 (which was released 3 months ago) and v4.5.14: https://github.com/es-shims/es5-shim/compare/v4.5.14...v4.5.15

The only differences that could possibly cause an issue are https://github.com/es-shims/es5-shim/commit/64b444ebddd81ccf04c86a8aed21fe754acc829b (es5-sham, avoiding an infinite loop in pre-proto browsers) and https://github.com/es-shims/es5-shim/commit/0fda3b895813dba67fedb6c2506c6c898760278f (adding a name to the split replacement), and https://github.com/es-shims/es5-shim/commit/9390b337000ba4263b33333beec453ce07c1f82a (caching floor/abs/pow off of Math).

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps es6-shim is patching these Math methods, which affects some of the other things in es5-shim.

[gnh1201]

The lines that are currently experiencing errors in es6-shim are as follows. https://github.com/paulmillr/es6-shim/blob/master/es6-shim.js#L72

  var defineProperty = function (object, name, value, force) {
    if (!force && name in object) { return; }
    if (supportsDescriptors) {
      Object.defineProperty(object, name, {
        configurable: true,
        enumerable: false,
        writable: true,
        value: value
      });
    } else {
      object[name] = value;
    }
  };

I checked the parameters passed. If es5-shim 4.5.15 is used, there is an entry in which the variable 'force' appears as 'undefined'.

* object: object
* name: string
indexOf
* value: function
function indexOf(searchElement) {
      var value = _arrayIndexOfApply(this, arguments);
      if (value === 0 && (1 / value) < 0) {
        return 0;
      }
      return value;
    }
* force: boolean
-1
* object: object
* name: string
_es6-shim iterator_
* value: function
function () { return this.values(); }
* force: undefined

* object: undefined
* name: string
_es6-shim iterator_
* value: function
function iterator() { return this; }
* force: undefined

// error

Based on the results above, there seems to be a problem with _iterator. When I used es5-shim 4.5.14, there were no items marked undefined and everything worked fine.

* object: function                                           
* name: string                                               
toString                                                     
* value: function                                            
function (){ return binder.apply(this, arguments); }         
* force: boolean                                             
-1                                                           
* object: object                                             
* name: string                                               
sup                                                          
* value: function                                            
function sub() { return ES.CreateHTML(this, 'sup', '', ''); }
* force: boolean                                             
-1                                                           
* object: function                                           
* name: string                                               
toString                                                     
* value: function                                            
function (){ return binder.apply(this, arguments); }         
* force: boolean                                             
-1                                                           

// done without error

[gnh1201]

Oh! Fixed! I fixed this change back to === and it works fine. 64b444ebddd81ccf04c86a8aed21fe754acc829b

[gnh1201]

https://github.com/es-shims/es5-shim/pull/458

[ljharb]

Thanks for clarifying; I’ll try to find a way to test this and avoid the infinite loop.

[ljharb]

@gnh1201 in which engines are you experiencing an error? is it when es6-shim is loaded, or when you invoke a specific method?

[gnh1201]

The JavaScript engine uses Windows Scripting Host 5.812. There is a problem loading the library.

[gnh1201]

Here is the file for the test. https://gist.github.com/gnh1201/3702353d163e549e097c2083b407f8fd

[gnh1201]

This is an example of a project being used: https://github.com/gnh1201/welsonjs

[ljharb]

ah wow, WSH, that's a name i haven't heard in a long time :-)

I don't have access to any windows machines, so I'm not sure how i can test this. What's the exact failure you get, and on what line (please include the entire stack trace if present), of that gist?

[gnh1201]

The exact point of failure is that there is a variable called object marked undefined. This depends on whether it is == or === as shown in 64b444ebddd81ccf04c86a8aed21fe754acc829b.

• es5-sham.js:L70

  if (proto || proto == null) { // `undefined` is for pre-proto browsers    // <--- allow 'undefined' object
  // if (proto || proto === null) //  <--- disallow 'undefined' object

• es6-shim.js:L72

  if (!force && name in object) { return; }    // <--- error and break (because `object' is `undefined`)

If I can see the stack trace, I will write it soon.

[ljharb]

What happens if you leave it as == null, but change the next line to return proto || null;?

[gnh1201]

I modified it as below.

• es5-sham.js:L70

          if (proto || proto == null) { // `undefined` is for pre-proto browsers
              return proto || null;

But the results were the same.

[gnh1201]

I'm sorry. There is a difference when I check it again.

• Before edit

• object: undefined // <--- here

• name: string es6-shim iterator

• value: function function iterator() { return this; }

• force: undefined

• After edit

• object: object // <--- here

• name: string es6-shim iterator

• value: function function iterator() { return this; }

• force: undefined

However, the variable force is marked undefined, so the type of error is the same.

[gnh1201]

If I change it as below, the error will be solved.

• es5-sham.js:L70

          if (proto || typeof(proto) !== 'undefined') { // `undefined` is for pre-proto browsers
              return proto;

[ljharb]

That change would disallow undefined (reverting 64b444ebddd81ccf04c86a8aed21fe754acc829b) but would also allow false, 0, NaN, and 0n.

[gnh1201]

So what about proto || typeof(proto) === 'object' instead of proto || typeof(proto) !== 'undefined'?

[ljharb]

The previous behavior for that branch was “truthy or null”, and the infinite loop bug fix was to change it to “truthy or null or undefined”. Every suggestion you’ve made reverts the bugfix by disallowing undefined there.

[gnh1201]

Modifying es6-shim to match the changes in es5-shim(sham) corrected the error. Please check if it is a valid solution.