Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Alex Russell wrote: > >> This point disturbs me. Making classes frozen solves no existing JS >> programmer problems, introduces new restrictions with no mind paid to >> the current (useful) patterns of WRT the prototype chain, and >> introduces the need for a const that only seems there to make some >> weird security use-cases work. And I say that with all sympathy to >> weird language features and the security concerns in question. >> >> Why should this stuff be the default? > > What Mark said, I agree completely with his post: "this stuff" is *not* > "the default" -- function as constructor is the default, and no one is > salting that syntax. So why are you against sugar for high-integrity > programmers? It's not as if those weirdos will take over the world, right?
We security weirdos fully intend to take over the world. You have been warned. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
