On Jul 28, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote: > In general, I’m strongly in favor of adding more methods to these prototypes. > I have always been impressed by how many useful data manipulation features > were in the standard libraries of functional languages (e.g. Haskell) and in > scripting languages such as Python. JavaScript should have more of these, > perhaps by examining what functionality frameworks are providing in this area. > > Do we have to wait for a collections hierarchy for more of these methods to > be added? Couldn’t the relevant methods be easily moved to a superclass once > that happens?
There is no superclass. Trying to make one is a bad idea. We'll end up with the usual tyranny-of-hierarchy problem where you want something to multiple inherit to be both a Collection and a Widget. I like Underscore (http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/). Should we standardize it? Not yet. But it points in the right direction to avoid OOP single-inheritance traps: functional programming, generic for all containers functions. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
