Mariusz Nowak wrote:
Brendan Eich-3 wrote:
In a more serious vein, we are at cross purposes with reality. Mutable
__proto__ just *is*. It is a de-facto standard.
(...)
Self had writable parent slots. One can disagree with the design
decision, but it's not unique to JS or uniquely evil.
I'm totally after "legalizing" __proto__ (I already had few valid use cases
for that in important projects)
but maybe we should deprecate `__proto__` (being a "property" is really
problematic) and standardize `Object.setPrototypeOf`? It would make things
much cleaner and safe.
No, for the reasons given here:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-May/022904.html
You have to read through the cited layers of text to get the full story.
/be
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