On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:29 AM, John-David Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > @Mike Shaver > For other possible uses please check out: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/gg278167 > https://github.com/jdalton/fusebox#readme
Those all look like they are needing custom-initialization, not arbitrary mutation at any point. Would you agree? For symmetry with Object.create, you might want Boolean.create, Date.create and so forth, but that's still initialization-time, and TBH I would be surprised if there were actually many collisions between libraries that augment those prototypes. Preserving (or adding to other engines) arbitrary prototype chain mutation in order to work around name collisions seems wrong to me. Mutable proto just happened to be the hack that worked (though so did iframes), and I can't really find anything other than Fuse that uses it on the web today. The solution to name collisions is simple modules, IMO, not monkeypatching of the builtin prototype hierarchy. I think you can also achieve what you want with Harmony proxies, so you'll have that option in the next edition of ES. Mike _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
