On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, so (after pushing back based on recorded consensus, which I think is
> fair), I'm ok with
>
> * Object.prototype.__proto__ is configurable.
>
> * o = {__proto__: p} semantics changes from ES5's [[Put]] to ES6's
> [[SetInheritance]].
>
> I'm not sure everyone agrees, but let's assume these two.
>
> Why, given these, must Object.prototype.__proto__ not reflect at all via
> Object.**getOwnPropertyDescriptor?
What? Where is that proposed? (And again, I am jumping into this thread in
the middle, so apologies for lack of context.)
> What about Object.getOwnPropertyNames? We have to sink some cost
> somewhere, and TC39 had a January near-consensus of "accessor, with get and
> set functions that throw on cross-realm |this| vs. the accessor function".
> That seems the best solution to me still, and it should fall out of
> cross-window/frame wrapper policy hooks fairly cheaply in SpiderMonkey.
>
That sounds good to me too. Where is the alternative explained?
>
> Re: Mark's
>
>
> 3) If we extend object literals with the computed name expression
>>
> square-bracket syntax, consider
>
>>
>> { [ e ]: .... }
>>
>> where e is an expression that evaluates to the string "__proto__".
>>
> This *must not* fall into the equivalent of the syntactic special case. To
> do so is to move the encoding error of #2 from code-generating programs to
> regular JS reflective programs.
>
> I agree with Mark. This does indeed mean that
>
> n = "__proto__";
> o = { [n]: p }
>
> will define a data property, not set inheritance. That's the only way
> quoting can matter, i.e.
>
> o = { ['__proto__']: p }
>
> defines a plain old data property. No need to mimic JSON and make a quoted
> vs. unquoted difference without the [] for computed property names. Making
> that change requires a search of the web to find disproof, which is never a
> complete search, which leaves us hanging and makes implementors unhappy to
> take unknown risk.
>
>
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