Isn't there a cost of assigning a function to an object every time you 
create such an object, vs. assigning to .prototype of a subclass?
At the very least you're creating a closure around any variables in scope 
at the point of the assignment.


On Sunday, April 7, 2013 1:27:50 PM UTC-7, greelgorke wrote:
>
> 2. both ways work. you could subclass or just create a Writabel instance 
> and attach a new _write function. It's more a matter of style and applied 
> paradigm. some prefer the mixin-approach, some inheritance. me personally 
> prefer the mixin approach, because it's cleaner and more focused on actual 
> work, than pseudoclass-boilerplating.   
>
> Am Sonntag, 7. April 2013 21:02:04 UTC+2 schrieb Liam:
>>
>> The v0.10 docs don't mention an 'error' event for Stream.Writable. Is 
>> that a docs omission, or an API change?
>>
>> Stream.Writable#write() takes a callback that provides an error, but the 
>> callback is described as 'optional'. If errors were only reported this way, 
>> surely it wouldn't be optional?
>>
>> Also, the docs don't give an example of defining a custom 
>> Stream.Writable. Should we define a subclass formally, or simply:
>>
>> var s = new Stream.Writable()
>> s._write = function(...) {} // feels odd; I'm used to attaching functions 
>> to prototypes
>>
>>

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