complexity tax

[Douglas Crockford]

Brendan Eich wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Ric Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Let us take action instead of throwing opinions around:
>> Brendan: What new features that can not be implemented via code
>> constructs now?
> 
> This is reductionism, therefore between silly and wrong, but I will list 
> a few things:
> 
> * you can't make read-only properties in ES3;
> 
> *you can't make don't-delete properties of plain old objects (only vars 
> in closures);
> 
> * you can't make objects that cannot be extended;
> 
> * you can't make don't-enum properties in plain old objects;

It looks like these omissions will be corrected in ES3.1 by the 
Object.defineProperties function. These essential features will be added without 
resorting to new syntax.