On Mar 18, 2011, at 1:08 PM, John-David Dalton wrote: >> You are missing shaver's point that initiializing is not the same as reassigning later on a created and reachable object. > > No, I got it. Sorry I didn't read ahead -- everyone seems to get this point now, which is progress. Did I miss new, mutating uses of __proto__ in PrototypeJS? /be