This has been discussed a while back: it is similar to how a getter-only 
accessor works. 


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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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On 07.11.2012, at 00:31, Andrea Giammarchi <[email protected]> wrote:

> so this mean that freezing a Contructor.prototype to enforce/ensure nobody 
> can change runtime that prototype will result in unusable code as we know, 
> right? Or we should never pre define properties that should be changed 
> runtime? Second one works and stink at the same time.
> 
> I preferred the old V8 behavior ... if I freeze a __proto__ the object should 
> not pass through that proto when a property is set unless the proto has a 
> setter ... but this is another story I guess.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for explaining this which is gold for a blog post.
> 
> br
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Brandon Benvie <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Clarification: if an object has no own property, then it defers to the 
>> writability from the prototype chain. If it has an own property then it 
>> never checks the prototype chain.
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