New private names proposal

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

On 2010-12-24 00:02, Oliver Hunt wrote:
> As a question how do soft fields/private names interact with an object
> that has had preventExtensions called on it?

For soft fields: there is no interaction, a new soft field can be added
to an object on which preventExtensions has been called.

For private names: new names are prevented from being added.

This is a useful feature of soft fields. There is no loss of security
or encaspulation as a result, for the same reason that there is not
for adding a soft field to a frozen object. (Freezing is equivalent to
preventing extensions, marking all properties as non-Configurable, and
marking all data properties as non-Writable.)

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David-Sarah Hopwood  ⚥  http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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