Or, just use coffeescript. It offers great class support with `super`, etc, while using standard prototypes.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say you don't need this. > > Just create a function with a capitalized first letter. That's your > class. Instantiate with `new`. Assign stuff to the prototype. Use > `util.inherits` (or the `inherits` module if you prefer) to do > inheritance, if you need to. > > It's much better to write idiomatic JavaScript rather than twist > JavaScript to look like some other language. Yes, of course you *can* > do it, and you might learn something from it, but it's not actually a > good idea to use such things in real life. I'd suggest writing a few > more OOP helper wrapper doohickeys. In fact, continue writing them > until you see through the matrix of OOP to the true nature of > prototypes, and deeply grok that it's all just the same thing, so you > may as well use the one that's the most optimized by the VM, and the > most readily understandable to other users of the language. > > That is, if you seek enlightenment. If you just wanna get something > done, use plain old boring JavaScript style OOP. > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Fredrik O <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have just wrote a simple lightweight OOP helper and want your thoughts > > about it, the implementation "Class" is only 15 lines of code, but I have > > included some tests, to show how it works. Any feedback is welcome. I am > no > > JavaScript expert, but if I have not done anything wrong should always > the > > generated class be 100% compatible with normal JavaScript prototype > > inheritance and indeed be very fast. It allows a user write somewhat more > > simple code. > > > > See gist: https://gist.github.com/3990372 > > > > What are your thoughts? Both negative and positive. And please, one > comment > > is better than no one, so please comment if you read through the gist. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
