>
> Precedent and developer conversations I've had strongly suggest that some
> code wants mutable primordials on the inside of a module that can be
> consumed without the mutations affecting the importer's primordials.
>
It would be *really* interesting to have module-local prototypes -- and not
only the standard classes, but also for user-defined classes which originate
from other modules.
Imagine, if you will, that modules add an extra layer in the scope chain
which somehow intercepts and proxies prototypes, resolving prototype misses
up to the "real" prototype for said class -- analogous to the way property
misses are resolved in JavaScript.
moduleA.js:
Array.prototype.a = "hello";
exports.foo = [];
moduleB.js:
Array.prototype.a = "world";
exports.foo = [];
program.js:
print(require("moduleA").foo.a, require("moduleB").foo.a));
print(require("moduleA").foo instanceof Array, require("moduleB").foo
instanceof Array));
print(typeof Array.prototype.a);
output:
hello world
true true
undefined
Wes
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