Object.seal, read references, and code reliability

[Alex Kodat]

-- Jordan Harband wrote ---

 - Every non-null/undefined value is checked for "then" when it's passed to a Promise's resolver, not just promises.
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OK, fair enough. I didn't realize Promise does this (haven't really used it much). This can be dealt with easily enough by the same technique used for toJSON, simply adding it to guarded object prototypes. All of these issues could also be dealt with by, if Object.guard were to ever make it into the spec, adding magic functions like toJson and then to the base object prototype in the same spec (set to undefined). This would present no backward incompatibilities (well, unless some code is doing something truly odd, IMO) and provides some visibility to these magic functions.

-- Jordan Harband wrote ---
 - Every non-null/undefined value, including `Object.create(null)` or `new (class extends null {})`, has valueOf and/or toString checked when attempting to convert it to a primitive.
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Sure but these all exist on Object.prototype so these would never throw for guarded objects. Maybe I'm missing something here?

-- Jordan Harband wrote ---
 - toJSON was added in 2009/2011; Symbols were added in 2015.
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OK, that explains it. And Promise probably didn't use Symbol.then (or whatever) because of the slight extra hassle of having to do object[Symbol.then] = ... instead of just adding a function using object literals, I'd guess.

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Alex Kodat
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