so is __parent__ ... in the Mozilla world, not in every browser. So your point is that __proto__ is a good thing I guess, I thought it was rather a mistake.
Moreover, I am talking about the standard Object.getPrototypeOf() which has been introduced recently, not in 1998, and there's no mechanism to prevent it to return the prototype. I understand now security is highly subjective here and private classes should not exist in a programming language. Again, **good to know** On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > >> It is not possible to secure or make a class hidden, it was possible >> before the introduction of __proto__ and Object.getPrototypeOf in ES3, now >> this is gone, and this was my security concern. >> ... >> >> Again, it was possible, now it's not possible anymore. >> > > By "anymore" you mean since 1998 or so? __proto__ is very old. > > /be >
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