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[Mark S. Miller]

>From a security perspective as well, I have always been uncomfortable with
observable uninitialized objects, though I have been too lazy to try
demonstrating a concrete attack.
 On Jun 19, 2014 11:12 AM, "Brendan Eich" <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:

> Kevin Smith wrote:
>
>> The current design does posit uninitialized objects, which implementers
>> are obviously uncomfortable with.  Could it be that we just haven't yet
>> developed the implementation techniques for dealing with such uninitialized
>> objects? Or is there a real problem with being able to observe them?
>>
>
> André replied well, but I just wanted to confirm: this is not some shallow
> whiny-implementor-knee-jerk-reaction problem. It's a real problem, for JS
> programmers as well as implementors.
>
> /be
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