The biggest advantage to beget is that it has the opportunity to become The Prototype Word. "inherit" has a lot of people associating it with classical OO programming. As nice as inherit sounds, it might be good to drop that baggage.
-Greg On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]>wrote: > As stated previously[1], my support for "begets" as pure win is unwavering. > > > Rick > > [1] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-October/017758.html > > > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Dmitry Soshnikov < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 16.11.2011 23:12, Erik Arvidsson wrote: >> >>> One thing that all of these discussions are missing is the hoisting >>> property of function and any possible future classes. If we use "let >>> Point = ..." we lose all hoisting and the order of your declarations >>> starts to matter and we will end up in the C mess where forward >>> references do not work. >>> >>> No matter, we may rewrite it with `var': >> >> // parent object >> var point = {x: 10, y: 20}; >> >> // child object >> var point3D extends point { >> >> z: 30 >> } >> >> // a class >> class Point3D extends Point { >> constructor (x, y, z) { ... } >> } >> >> It seems interesting for me, since we define both -- child classes and >> child objects with the same syntactic construction; only `var' and `class' >> keywords change. >> >> Dmitry. >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/es-discuss<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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