On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Ingvar von Schoultz wrote:
Some people yearn hotly for __proto__, preferrably writable if
at all possible, while others point to problems with security
and software privacy.
I wrote recently that __proto__ should be viewed as call/cc without
macros for common
Personally, I don't that the internal [[Prototype]] property should reify as
an actual property of the object. It's really a more fundamental aspect of
objectness than regular properties. From that perspective, if you want to
control access to it, it should probably be done as a flag on the
Ingvar von Schoultz wrote:
Some people yearn hotly for __proto__, preferrably writable if
at all possible, while others point to problems with security
and software privacy.
I get the impression that this could be solved by adding a fourth
flag among the property flags Enumerable, Writable
Brendan Eich wrote:
There's no point in Visible if the property could be deleted
altogether. What would be the difference?
Oops! Sorry! Lacking low-level insight I didn't think of that.
So my idea has no bearing at all on the inherent problems, much
less solved them. Too bad.
That's not
