On 02/11/11 14:26, John J Barton wrote:
Another maybe stronger argument is simplicity: these myriad new minor
features create a blizzard of chaff in the way of developers. One
excellent example is Object.create(). Here was a terrific opportunity
to simplify the language based on years of experience and analysis.
But instead of an object as a second argument, we got a descriptor
requiring many details for each property. Of course these details are
important for the use-cases that need them. Unfortunately everyone
else has to carry the baggage.
`Object.create' is not supposed to be used directly by end-users. It's
for library writers. Library writers get the heavy weight and generic
things, and transform that for a specific use-case. Of course, not
having an `Object.extend' and other object composition functionality
makes things a little too meh.
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