> On Jan 13, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Domenic Denicola <d...@domenic.me> wrote: > > From: Boris Zbarsky [mailto:bzbar...@mit.edu] > >> But it also means that user-space code that has to create an HTML element >> generically now has to go through document.createElement instead of being >> able to do |new HTMLElement("a")|, right? > > That seems totally fine to me though. The idea of a string-based factory for > when you don't know what constructor you want to use has precedent all over > software design.
I agree. It's unusual for a constructor of a super class to automatically instantiate an arbitrary subclass based on its arguments. And we usually solve that convenience problem by introducing a factory class/function. - R. Niwa
