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

[A. Sundararajan]

Thanks for the review.

As Hannes pointed given that Object.setPrototypeOf *may* make into ES6, 
we are future proof ;-)

PS. Updated webrev.01 to remove --proto-assign flag.

-Sundar

On Wednesday 21 August 2013 02:13 PM, Attila Szegedi wrote:
> 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