On 17.02.2011 11:22, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Dmitry A. Soshnikov wrote:Very strange behavior. What's the rationale? To avoid a shadowing? To avoid typo-errors -- i.e. if a user uses assignment it may be occasionally and if he uses Object.defineProperty -- he really wants to do it? Looks inconsistently. Assignment always affected an own property (only if the property isn't an accessor, then of course it affects the parent object).No, assignment that would shadow a readonly prototype-property in ES1-3 was a silent failure. See 8.6.2.3 [[CanPut]] and 8.6.2.2 [[Put]].
Hm, really. Never thought -- probably because there were no use cases in ES3 for me. Checked in ES3:
var o = {__proto__: Object};
o.prototype = 10;
console.log(o.prototype); // still Object.prototype
Thanks, it was new for me.
Dmitry.
/beDmitry. On 17.02.2011 5:02, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:They can be over-ridden by Object.defineOwnProperty. they cannot be over-ridden by assignment. See ES5 [[CanPut]] specification 8.12.4. step 8.b On Feb 16, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Irakli Gozalishvili wrote:Thanks for the reply Allen, I was under the impression that inherited properties can be overridden, regardless of their write-ability on the __proto__. Also as far as I understand freeze will make properties including constructor non-confugurable, will I still be able to override such properties using Object.defineProperty ? Also this was simplified example and it's not really possible to do the freeze after. Will try `Object.defineProprety` though. Thanks -- Irakli Gozalishvili Web: http://www.jeditoolkit.com/ Address: 29 Rue Saint-Georges, 75009 Paris, France On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:21, Allen Wirfs-Brock<[email protected]> wrote: The error looks correct to me. By freezing Type.proto you make all its own properties "read only". One of those is the constructor that is automatically created on every func.prototype object. When you assign to object.constructor you are trying to over-ride an inherited read-onoy property. ECMAScript has never allowed this. You can say: Object.defineProperty(object,"constructor",{value: function Foo() {}, /* any other attributes you want to set */}); to over-ride the inherited constructor property. Or you can restructure you code so you do the freeze after you do the assignment. On Feb 16, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Irakli Gozalishvili wrote:Hi, I've run into one issue and even after reading ES5 specs several times it's not clear to me what should be an expected behavior: Currently on Firefox nightly following code: (function() { "use strict"; function Type() {} Object.freeze(Type.prototype); var object = Object.create(Type.prototype); object.constructor = function Foo() {}; return object })(); throws TypeError: object.constructor is read-only while on chrome it returns object with constructor Foo I would like to know what is an expected behavior to fill a bug to an appropriate project. Thanks! -- Irakli Gozalishvili Web: http://www.jeditoolkit.com/ Address: 29 Rue Saint-Georges, 75009 Paris, France _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss_______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss_______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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