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Brendan Eich (2013-05-09T17:14:41.000Z)

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Andreas Rossberg wrote:
>> >  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.

Node won't, if I recall correctly. Any other embeddings of note?

>   And I absolutely do think that should be an option
> supported by the spec. To Annex B with it!

Ok already!

>   (And let's bury setPrototypeOf quickly.)

Bury how? IIUC this goes in main spec alongside ES5's 
Object.getPrototypeOf, requires a proxy trap, etc.

/be

github at esdiscuss.org (2013-07-12T02:27:20.783Z)

Andreas Rossberg wrote:
>>  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.

Node won't, if I recall correctly. Any other embeddings of note?

> And I absolutely do think that should be an option
> supported by the spec. To Annex B with it!

Ok already!

> (And let's bury `setPrototypeOf` quickly.)

Bury how? IIUC this goes in main spec alongside ES5's 
`Object.getPrototypeOf`, requires a proxy trap, etc.

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