On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: >> Suppose I have two objects, extensible instance X with private instance >> property 'foo', and extensible object Y upon which I have defined a property >> 'foo' using Object.defineProperty, setting writable=false. If a client of Y >> tries to extend if with a public 'foo' property, then this would fail >> (throwing a TypeError in strict mode code). Would it not be acceptable for >> the attempted assignment to the private property of X to fail in a similar >> fashion? > > No, that leaks the fact that there's a private-named object
er, "private property on the object". /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
