On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Oct 7, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote: > > ... > > > >> I would prefer the name Object.copyOwnPropertiesTo(source, target) or >> Object.copyOwnTo(source, target) to the name “extend” (which, to me, >> suggests inheritance). >> > > > I isn't clear from the attribution who said the following. It wasn't Axel: > > Since we live in a right to left world (a = b();) we need the target on the > left. Then multiple RHS also works easily. > > > There is probably a significant part of the world population who would > disagree with this assertion. We have building technology for web developer > across the entire world. We need to be careful about using cultural bias to > justify language design decisions. > > You might have a stronger argument is you said that JS already has a right > to left bias and that consistency is important. > Yes, that is what I said: JS is a right to left world. I shall try to avoid being obscure. jjb
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