I really like this - I'm writing up a ".empty" proposal and I'll include
this as part of it, thanks!

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:52 AM, C. Scott Ananian <ecmascript at cscott.net>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Isiah Meadows <isiahmeadows at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 23, 2015 6:06 AM, "Andrea Giammarchi" <
>>> andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Jordan Harband <ljharb at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> >>  - We'd definitely want `Map.empty` and `Set.empty` assuming
>>> `Object.freeze` actually froze them
>>>
>>> Object.freeze does not freeze them, as far as I know. It might require
>>> method overrides.
>>>
>> Object.freeze does not freeze their state. A proposal for a way to either
>> freeze the state of collections, and/or to create frozen snapshots of
>> collections, for future ES would be welcome and appreciated. I encourage
>> any such effort to pay attention to Clojure and React.
>>
>
> I ran into this today.
>
> As a strawman proposal:
>
> > Add "If TestIntegrityLevel(M, "frozen") is true, throw a TypeError
> exception" between steps 3 and 4 of 23.1.3.1 (Map.prototype.clear),
> 23.1.3.3 (Map.prototype.delete), 23.1.3.9 (Map.prototype.set), 23.2.3.1
> (Set.prototype.add), 23.2.3.2 (Set.prototype.clear), and 23.2.3.4
> (Set.prototype.delete).
>
> This wouldn't be some fancy all-singing all-dancing collection snapshot,
> and would still leave the user responsible for freezing the prototype, etc,
> but it would bring Map and Set back into parity with object (that is,
> m.get(f) behaves for the most part like o[f]).
>
> Users would still have to special-case Map/Set when they implement their
> own deepFreeze() methods, etc, but this ensures that the internal list is
> actually protected.  It is (AFAICT) otherwise impossible in ES6 to maintain
> object identity when "freezing" an collection.
>  --scott
>
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I really like this - I'm writing up a ".empty" proposal and I'll include
this as part of it, thanks!