Re: Distinguishing native and host objects

2009-09-02 Thread Brendan Eich
On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:14 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: You missed my point. Why do *new* abstractions need to have a [[Class]] other than "Object"? The fact that existing abstractions are defined that way is not a sufficiently good reason. I'm not sure who missed what, but as I pointed out

Re: Distinguishing native and host objects

2009-09-02 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Brendan Eich wrote: > On Sep 2, 2009, at 6:15 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > >> Brendan Eich wrote: >>> The spec can't yet define these "native wannabe" future standardization >>> fodder objects, but clearly that's what Allen was thinking of, and it is >>> well-known to implementors. >> >> Why d