Review request for 8023368: Instance __proto__ property should exist and be writable.

[Attila Szegedi]

Your patch seems okay to me, so +1. I'm somewhat anxious if we have a prototype change switchpoint everywhere right now (specifically for negative lookups, e.g. property not found), but I suppose we do -- I mean, changing the prototype of an object should not be much different than replacing all the properties of the original prototype (except it's only scoped to a single object), and that works already.

Cue my inevitable grumbling about having to support this functionality and the questionable programming practices of people who rely on it, but I'll just take a deep breath and carry on :-)

Attila.

On Aug 21, 2013, at 7:43 AM, "A. Sundararajan" <sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com> wrote:

> Please review http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8023368/
> 
> Thanks
> -Sundar