| 20:52 | <ljharb> | can anyone come up with an because i've got one in IE 8 that defies my understanding |
| 22:06 | <shu> | like, is it possible to legitimately construct a cycle with [[Prototype]] without "spoofing" the answer with proxies? |
| 22:06 | <shu> | i... hope not? |
| 22:09 | <bakkot> | OrdinarySetPrototypeOf checks for cycles so you can't do it as a user without exotics https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ordinary-and-exotic-objects-behaviours.html#sec-ordinarysetprototypeof |
| 22:09 | <bakkot> | but nothing strictly forbids a host from providing a pair of ordinary objects where each is the other's [[Prototype]] |
| 22:10 | <shu> | i feel like things would just iloop |
| 22:11 | <shu> | afaik v8 or other engines don't implement cycle checking everywhere we do a prototype walk, even as a debug assert |