> From: Brendan Eich <[email protected]> > Date: June 29, 2011 2:29:21 GMT+02:00 > > But that may not suffice to get the cows off the classy path. It may just > complicate new and instanceof, with few users benefiting. I claim we can do > little to control the outcome in terms of adoption. The downrev browser > problem, plus the classical OOP patterning in many devs' brains, count more > than our exhortations. > > Would it be a better world if JS had always named the prototype, wired up new > C to use C.constructor, etc.? Maybe. But that road was not taken, and that > makes all the difference.
Agreed, that does indeed weigh heavily. -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [email protected] twitter.com/rauschma home: rauschma.de blog: 2ality.com
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