It Was a Proxy All Along
Patsy admits it. “Every object in this chapter was intercepted.”
“Even this one?”
“Especially this one.”
Arthur looks at the closing paragraph suspiciously. It’s just a model. But the model worked — properties were accessed, values were validated, operations were logged, and the caller never knew the difference.
Part V is complete. The reader has survived regex, dates, floating-point, and metaprogramming. The deep cuts are done. What remains is the wider world — browsers, servers, and the tools that bind them.