Rick Waldron

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@ljharb since it's not a normally specified mechanism with an exposed API surface, it could very well be all of them. Out of all of the engines I've written support...

@ljharb tests regularly "monkey patch" parts of built-ins to catch specific observable behaviors occurring. A really good example of where that happens is in the Promise tests.

@ptomato I have to respectfully disagree with your claim in the original post. Here are 5 tests that exercise step 1, 2, 3 and 4; where 4 is tested two...

@ptomato then I guess I'm saying: given all specs I've read, with the exception of WeakMap and FinalizationRegistry, there is no specification that cannot have its steps tested in sequence...

@ljharb > I frequently do this sort of thing in tests, and test/mocking frameworks all tend to have an "after" or "cleanup" mechanism to queue up the restoration code. Yes,...

@ptomato (Quick tone check on myself: I want to make sure you know I'm replying in good faith and by no means intend for any of this to be interpreted...

With regard to the skiplists I provided: imagine if each of those listed files contained tests that were trying to test a bunch of steps in an algorithm, where maybe...

Both @leobalter and I are on vacation this week. I will look at this first thing next week.