Issue #1936: Make the spy functions non enumerable so that printing it is more concise #1941
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Purpose
Improve issue #1936: Make the spy functions non enumerable so that printing it is more concise
Background
When printing a spy (which is often done by assertion libraries), the output takes a long chunk of space and make debugging really difficult. This PR removes the internal functions from this output, making the list smaller and more useful.
Solution
This PR expands the
extend
function to support extending usingObject.defineProperty
withenumerable: false
. Asconfigurable
andwritable
are set totrue
, the rest of the codebase will still work as intended. Note that as indicated by @ehmicky in the original issue, the node REPL is not affected.How to verify