I would rather bury __proto__ sooner through a --no-black-magic-in-object-prototype V8 flag but again, I proposed a flag and V8 said they don't want to go for this direction ... **actually it was you saying that**
https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2645#c3 "We have no interest in fragmenting the language space via ad-hoc flags" ? On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Andreas Rossberg <rossb...@google.com>wrote: > On 8 May 2013 22:58, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Andreas Rossberg wrote: > >> > >> On 8 May 2013 18:06, David Bruant<bruan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Le 08/05/2013 08:01, Andreas Rossberg a écrit : > >>> > >>>> On 8 May 2013 07:10, Mark Miller<erig...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> What would be gained by > >>>>> moving the property alone to Annex B? If nothing, then I think this > >>>>> consistency should win. > >>>> > >>>> JavaScript implementations in new or existing eco systems that are not > >>>> poisoned by web legacy wouldn't be obliged to support it. It's the > >>>> difference between acknowledging web reality and forcing web reality > >>>> on everybody. > >>> > >>> What are you saying? V8 releases versions where annoying and ugly de > >>> facto > >>> standards are out so that software built on top of Node.js, MongoDB and > >>> other embedders only use a cleaner JS? Awesome! ;-) > >> > >> That would be an option -- I'd very much like to move some of these > >> things behind a flag. > > > > But not __proto__ -- dream on if you think that is going away any time > soon! > > I was thinking about V8 embedders other than browsers who could toggle > that flag. And I absolutely do think that should be an option > supported by the spec. To Annex B with it! (And let's bury > setPrototypeOf quickly.) > > /Andreas > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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