__proto__ in Annex B

[David Bruant]

Le 29/09/2011 20:10, Brendan Eich a écrit :
> On Sep 29, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>
>> On 28/09/11 00:06, Waldemar Horwat wrote:
>>> Should we standardize __proto__ in Annex B?
>>> MarkM + a few others:  Yes
>>> Waldemar, Doug:  No
>> Unless we have a definite plan that no ES.Next impl will support __proto__, then by all means don't standardize it.
> It is a standard (de-facto)
What is a de facto standard exactly? The fact that '__proto__' allows to
get and set the prototype? This basic definition stands, but I have
heard of bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690027

Firefox 7 recently added a '__proto__' property to Object.prototype
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690031). Would it be part
of the non-mandatory spec?

Making __proto__ part of the spec sounds like an incitation to authors
to use it. I agree that implementors should agree for interoperability
purposes, but I'm not sure the official ECMAScript standard is the right
place to do so since it is intended for authors as well.

David