On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:38 PM, Yehuda Katz <wyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any proposal that destroys this invariant:
>
> function() {
> var x = obj();
>
> // other statements not involving x
>
> x // still defined
> }
>
> destroys local reasoning and would almost certainly do more harm than good.
Agreed. This is analogous to the idea of Proxy.attach, where any (non-local)
code can come along and mutate meta-level behavior of an object. In the case of
Proxy.attach, it's modifying the behavior of the various object operations. In
the case of `free' it's modifying the object-ness entirely.
Dave
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