I would like to see Object.setPrototypeOf(object, proto) too and a
disappeared __proto__ 'till now breaking too much.
It would be much easier to implement all shenanigans via
Object.defineProperty(Object.prototype, '__proto__', {whatever}); rather
than fix current non-standard __proto__ ...
+1
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Nathan Wall <nathan.w...@live.com> wrote:
> A previous thread [1] brought to my attention the fact that objects which
> don't inherit from Object.prototype won't have mutable __proto__. This was
> something I had missed and breaks some scripts I'm currently using because
> I have objects which I don't want to inherit from Object.prototype but for
> which I do want to have mutable proto.
>
> Testing in Firefox Nightly I found this workaround:
>
> var x = { }, y = { foo: 'bar' };
>
> x.__proto__ = y;
> console.log(1, x.foo);
> // => 1 'bar'
>
> x.__proto__ = null;
> console.log(2, x.foo);
> // => 2 undefined
>
> x.__proto__ = y;
> console.log(3, x.foo);
> // => 3 undefined
>
> var _setPrototype = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(Object.prototype,
> '__proto__').set,
> setPrototypeOf = Function.prototype.call.bind(_setPrototype);
> setPrototypeOf(x, y);
> console.log(4, x.foo);
> // => 4 'bar'
>
> Is this workaround a temporary bug in Firefox's current implementation? Or
> will this be the spec'ed behavior for ES6? Can we use such a method to
> mutate prototype on objects which don't inherit from Object.prototype?
>
>
> [1] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2013-March/029176.html
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