Hi Matin,
Thanks for the explanation.
I'm glad that my dumb quesitons help a little bit qooxdoo to become better.
Regards
2011/5/18 Martin Wittemann <[email protected]>
> Hey,
> > I'm wondering why the array defined in qx.data.Array does not inherit
> from qx.type.BaseArray, or qx.type.Array ?
> To answer the question, we need to know some differences of those two
> arrays. The BaseArray extend the native Array which means it has all the API
> the native array has like accessing the values with the brackets. That
> means, that a user can read and set the values like:
>
> array[1] = array[0];
>
> With the data array, you unfortunately don't have the brackets notation. As
> sad as it is that we don't have that, it is necessary because the data
> array's main purpose is to generate change events on every change on the
> array. But writing a value like in the example above is impossible to track
> in all browsers so we can't allow the brackets to access the array.
> With that knowledge, it should be clear that subclassing the BaseArray is
> not possible because we would get the brackets notation in which then,
> breaks the main purpose of the data array.
>
> > Plus the qx.type.BaseArray explanation say it's the base of all Array in
> qooxdoo.
> Thats simply a documentation error. I changed that "all" to "most" which
> should fix the wrong documentation.
>
> > Is that normal, or a known error ?
> As you see, thats all on purpose, expect the documentation stuff. ;)
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
>
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