On Oct 30, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > I searched a bit and re-read Smalltalk, Self, Cecil, and Io docs to get a > handle on what <| does. It is not 'clone'.
It's not 'copy' (Self) either, clearly. > It ain't 'create' except in a vacuous sense that's also already "taken" by > ES5 Object.create. It isn't "subsuming" in my view. "refinedBy" is closer but > you'll get camelCaps keywords into JS over my dead body! > > I landed on 'beget' because 'create' is close but vague yet poisoned, and we > need something pithy. Also, 'beget' does match the "sire" or "hatch" connotation of taking a parent (Self again) object and differentialy inheriting another object from it via proto-linking. Clone means make a twin and mutate. Copy is, well, just a copy -- arguably close to clone and one char shorter (so Self chose well). What we have with <| is more like "generate a child" -- hence, 'beget'. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
