On Jan 21, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
> Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>
>> I agree, that the anti-spoofing is the most questionable part of the design
>> and I would be fine with loosing it. But is it really questionable enough
>> that we can't live with what is specified. What is the fatal flaw. What
>> does it actually harm?
>
> This is not the question to ask, since there won't be obvious fatal flaws in
> lots of things we still need to agree upon, yet the cumulative complexity
> will hide flaws. We need to reduce complexity to reduce risk of something bad
> (however non-fatal). Many small wounds add up. I know this too well from JS,
> which barely survived its early trials.
>
> Let's lose what we can, to avoid letting loose the complexity/risk-hounds
> ;-). How would you cut anti-spoofing?
By simply deleting step 17 of
http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-object.prototype.tostring
Allen
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