I never looked that close, but I thought that prototype extended the base objects with the prototype property? If this is the case, then it wasn't a great idea

I never looked that close, but I thought that prototype extended the base objects with the prototype property? If this is the case, then it wasn't a great idea. Meta programming is acceptable when you control the compiler or spec of the language, but as ECMA specifications move forward, and those functions are added, you'll get conflicts. And you can't control what browser is interpreting your javascript. Maybe I just didn't understand it well enough.