What does MooTools' Function.prototype.overloadSetter() do?

Question

I\'m looking through the MooTools source to try and understand its .implement() and .extend() utilities.

The definition of each refers to a fun

Answer 1

The part that had me scratching my head for a while was the

var enumerables = true; for (var i in {toString: 1}) enumerables = null;

part, which turns out to be a test for the DontEnum bug that some browsers have. At first glance it seems like it should just set enumerables to null, but with the DontEnum bug toString is suppressed (wrongly, because the object's prototype.toString has the DontEnum flag) and enumerables is left as true.

overloadSetter (or rather the resulting function) then has to check one at a time for the seven properties that the DontEnum bug affects, to see if they exist in the object argument.