A-ha!
That puts things in context. With reference to the String "class" -
and not the String prototype - (note to self on not getting confused),
I understand that "specialChar" is meant to be used as a constant of
sorts.
And I see now that String.intepret() is being used in the "gsub()"
implementation on the String prototype, something I failed to see
before (just as I did String.specialChar() in "inspect()"
implementation).
Next question : Given as you explained that extending a class X using
the syntax in the original post is useful for associating "static"
information on X, is that information accessible only within methods
on the prototype? In other words, can I simply do :
var s = null;
String.interpret(s); // and this should return ''
outside of methods that are not created using
Object.extend(String.prototype, { ... } )?
Or dare I say, are such methods "public static"?
Thanks much.
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