As I was talking about using objects as enums, someone made a comment about the lack of private and protected constructors. I know that the this is a sore spot, so I thought I’d explain my view of how we got here, and give my two cents.

The problem is that unlike what we did with ActionScript 2, we are working tightly with people from Mozilla and others to standardize on ECMAScript edition 4. The ECMAScript standard is not final, but we are adhering as closely as we can to the spec as it develops.
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