On 04/04/2008, at 1:35 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > EIBTI! Perhaps not the best reference given the topic, given that Python makes class overriding and resurrection of overridden classes possible with their __builtin__ module.
I'm actually quite surprised to hear that there are so many on this list who are happy to drop EcmaScript's usual dynamicism in favour of so called "integrity". Monkey patching is prevalent on the web, and I believe that the practice should be supported, not feared. Sure, developers will be able to explicitly mark areas in their code which they deem appropriate for another developer to change, but that strikes me as a bit of a fantasy land. The majority of code which requires patching by external developers was never written to be patched, but people do it anyway. This is good, don't you agree? -- Nathan de Vries _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
