Oh, sorry for the duplicate. It appears you guys were just recently discussing this, though it failed to turn up in my searches. For what it's worth, I would prefer for it to be specified that the global object's prototype chain must include Object.prototype. I am sure there's plenty of code that depends on that. On 5 Aug 2013 02:54, "Alan Schmitt" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > [email protected] writes: > > > It has recently come to my attention that, though Object.prototype is in > > the prototype chain of the global object in all interpreters I've ever > > used, the [[Prototype]] of the global object is actually unspecified. My > > question: was this property intentionally unspecified to allow for > > interpreters to use other objects (or null) as the [[Prototype]] of the > > global object? If so, it'd be great to add a note to the spec. If not, > I'd > > be glad to open a bugzilla bug to correct the omission. Either way, I > think > > the spec should explicitly mention this value. > > Here is the related bug report for the test262 test that also assumes > this. > > https://bugs.ecmascript.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600 > > Best regards, > > Alan Schmitt >
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