Why Window Or Document Can't Be Set To Undefined Or Null?

This might be a silly question but I haven't found an answer to it. Why can't we do the following? window = undefined OR document = undefined I know those are globals and are av

Solution 1:

According to the standard:

The window attribute must return the Window object's browsing context's WindowProxy object. The document attribute must return the Window object's newest Document object.

Meaning window is the context in which all of your scripts are evaluated. If it was writable then the above wouldn't hold and the implementation wouldn't follow the spec, therefore it isn't writable. For similar reasons you can add properties to document but you can't override it.

You can verify this by looking at the IDL:

[Unforgeable] readonly attribute WindowProxy window;
[Unforgeable] readonly attribute Document document;

Solution 2:

window is the context. You cant't do this = something else. document is property of window. It is not writable or configurable.

Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor( window, 'document' );

output

Object {value:document, 
   writable:false,
   enumerable:true, 
   configurable:false}