Simple Get

My main project at work uses large JavaScript objects for a data store. Our team used a very cool method to dynamically create null-safe getter functions and cache them for reuse. Oh, and did I mention it was fast?

I rewrote the guts to do just the bare minimum–get objects and their primitive property values from a given context (or this). Future implementations may take some sort of descriptive notation in the path (mostly likely to filter arrays of objects), but this will work well for most applications.

note: So, slightly more than the bare minimum. I chose to allow path to be a string or array of strings. This allows me to pass get.apply an arguments object–which may come in handy–and saves processing if I already have a split path.