Sorry for bringing this up again, but I’m still having trouble with naming things properly in JavaScript.
- What do you call something that produces instances in JavaScript? A class? A type? A constructor? Or is a constructor the implementation of a type? - Are Date and RegExp built-in types? What do you call the value of the global variable Date? Is new Date() an instance of a type or an instance of a constructor? - What about primitives?Are there primitive types and object types? Is the union of the two called just “types”? - If instance factory B inherits from instance factory A, is B a subclass of A? B a subtype of A? B a subconstructor of A? - Does a class literal (if it makes it into ES.next) define a class? Is a class the implementation of a type? Intuitively, it is clear how things work, but I find it difficult to be precise when talking/writing about them. -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [email protected] home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com
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