On Sep 27, 3:58*am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@web.de>
wrote:

> Whatever you might mean by "notional", Activation Objects exist and are part
> of the scope chain of function code (ES3F, 10.2.3). *Furthermore, "The
> activation object is then used as the variable object for the purposes of
> variable instantiation." (10.1.6) *Unfortunately, the Activation/Variable
> Object cannot be referred to, hence this quick hack.
>

And rest assured that nearly everything everywhere nowadays is
(internally) held in objects as well... and ? 'If it looks like a duck
and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck' : but this object of yours,
from a JS programmer point of view, not only doesn't quack like an
object, it doesn't even look like one because it's invisible. They
might have as well written the spec in another way using a different
language and you would not be here arguing about its existence. In
this sense it's 'notional only'.

--
Jorge.