David Bruant wrote:
Hi,
I haven't been following very closely some of the most recent
discussions, so I appologize if my comments have been addressed already
Le 23/11/2012 18:48, Allen Wirfs-Brock a écrit :
Changes include:
• MOP changes: Added [[GetInheritance]]/[[SetInheritance]] as internal
methods for accessing [[Prototype]] internal prototype chain.
Why not [[GetPrototype]] and [[SetPrototype]]? We have a absurd number
of excellent resources (including but not limited to Dmitry Soshnikov
and Axel Rauschmayer's websites/blogs) which use extensively the ES5
internal [[Prototype]]. It's also been very hard to get people to
understand the difference between .prototype and [[Prototype]]. I'm
afraid a new change would create a lot of confusion.
Neither of them is prototype, so the naming is unhappy. It is good that
renaming is happening. And [[Prototype]] is imo worse of the two (the
second being .prototype), so I welcome the fact that the operations were
named as such. I hope the next step is to rename [[Prototype]] itself to
[[Inheritance]]. Fair share of uses of [[Prototype]] were deleted in
this change, and from those that left the most are in Chapter 15 where
they are used mechanically to spec builtins.
David
Herby
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