Bug 11609 – Function.toString removes commas from the function body

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: JavaScriptCore

[Bertrand Le Roy]

function foo() {
  var e = {name: "value", type: Number, integer: true};
  return e;
}

alert(foo.toString().indexOf(','));

Should show a positive integer, it shows -1. Seems to be fixed in the latest WebKit build but it's pretty bad as you can't eval a function's toString and get a working function.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This works correctly in the latest WebKit indeed, and there is unfortunately nothing we can do to make vendors integrate the fix faster - one has to contact Apple, Omni and others separately for this :-(.

[Bertrand Le Roy]

Yes, well, I filed this mainly for it to be documented, in case someone else hits the problem. As far as I'm concerned it's ok if it's not fixed for the current Safari: it doesn't block any important feature on our side.
Thanks for looking into it.