On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Erik Arvidsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 08:43, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ES4 since Waldemar's 1998-era JS2 work was concerned with the problem of >> versioning APIs implied by (1) greatly, and not just adding properties: >> deleting and redefining too. ES4 proposed namespaces (like Common Lisp >> packages, IIRC) as the solution. But namespaces are out for Harmony. >> My hope is that we can avoid versioning the object model and instead >> simply extend certain objects that we effectively "reserve to the >> implementation" (as ANSI and then ISO C does with certain global names, e.g. >> __foo and _BAR). Indeed Ajax library developers now generally avoid >> extending standard prototypes, and it's plausible this best-practice could >> be extended to the built-in constructor objects too. > > These are considered best practices because it breaks in the presence of > other code outside your control. There is a reason why Prototype.js is > popular. It allows people to write code in a more sane way,
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