Standardizing __proto__
Allen Wirfs-Brock
allen at wirfs-brock.com
Fri Mar 18 12:25:10 PDT 2011
Can you provide some concrete real world examples of setting alternative prototypes on Number, Boolean, and String instances? RegExp too, but that's a different beast. Also I don't believe that oliver's solution helps you much for functions.
On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:12 PM, John-David Dalton wrote:
>> I think Oliver's original formulation is more correct, but regardless this really would have to be specified using ES5 pseudo code.
>>
>> This is along the path of what I was calling a "generalized" solution to the problem and as such I think it needs deeper/longer
>> consideration to be sure we have it right. I think a single argument Array.create is safer if we are looking for something that
>> could be immediately implemented in order to start phasing out __proto__. Having Array.create wouldn't stop also providing
>> a more general solution such as the one below.
>
> As a dev who actually uses __proto__ as a fallback for sandboxed
> Arrays, I can tell you that Array.create() is **not** a quick,
> suitable solution.
> I support more than Array like String, RegExp, Function, Number, and Boolean.
> I would stress, as it seems you keep circling back to Array.create(),
> that Array.create() is not a fitting replacement for __proto__.
> Not even in the short term.
>
> I can see Oliver's proposal totally fitting __proto__'s use case, so I
> would +1 his Object.subclass() over Array.create().
> It would be great if solutions like Oliver's Object.subclass() were
> discussed in the next meeting.
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