On 7/19/06, Ryan Gahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Protoype is important if only for the ease with which it enables class based OO programming in js. Yes, we all know... js is a prototyped based OO language, but using a traditional class approach makes code re-use, readability, and refactoring (read maintenance) so much easier. I'm guessing the OP with the beef against proto is more into procedural style programming (which is FINE, please don't everyone jump down my throat about that comment... :-)
There are a lot cleaner ways to do OOP in JavaScript without all that init function business http://www.kevlindev.com/tutorials/javascript/inheritance/index.htm Peter _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs