[Harmony Proxies] Non-extensible, sealed and frozen Proxies

[Tom Van Cutsem]

2011/9/8 David Bruant <david.bruant at labri.fr>

> **
> So the third argument would be the object the proxy would become. This
> sounds like a reasonable idea but is a bit different from the original fix
> proposal which created a fresh object based on an object description
> (pdmap).
> I guess I should ask: why in the original design did the author had to
> return a description of the object to be returned rather than creating the
> object himself and return it? To avoid returning a proxy, maybe?
>

In order for the proxy to safely "become" a target object, the target object
should be newborn (i.e. no other object should have a live reference to the
target object). Otherwise, we violate the stability of ===. Consider:

var o = {};
var p = Proxy.create(handler, proto, o);
o === p // false
Object.preventExtension(p); // assume p now becomes o
o === p // true

That's why fix() returns a description of a fresh object to create, rather
than a fresh object itself.

Cheers,
Tom
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