Standard builtins' prototypes and toString

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

On Jun 12, 2014, at 8:28 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> It would be slightly more "JavaScripty" to have
> Date.prototype.[[DateValue]] exist, and be set to the epoch or some
> such.
> 
> This problem actually seems to be an artifact of the way that
> [[Construct]] works in ES6 -- but the takeaway is that prototypes of a
> class are not themselves instances of the class.  It's not surprising
> that methods of the class thus don't work on the prototype.  I'd vote
> WONTFIX.
>  --scott

TC39 explicitly agreed that we would move away from the "a prototype is an instance of its constructor" model, except where there was known legacy usage that we had to support. That previous model make it very difficult to generalize the initialization of prototype objects created via class declarations.

Allen