prototype for operator proposal for review

[Dmitry A. Soshnikov]

Besides. The same inheriting keyword can be used for both -- classes 
inheriting and just classless (or chaotic, prototypal) reuse:

foo < bar

class Foo < Bar

or

foo extends bar {
   y: 20
}

class Foo extends Bar

Since both implements the same pattern -- linear vertical "tower" of 
code reuse (in simple words -- just single inheritance), then the same 
keyword seems also logical.

Dmitry.

On 18.05.2011 11:41, Dmitry A. Soshnikov wrote:
> On 18.05.2011 6:50, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> We had so much fun with feedback on my Unicode proposal I just have 
>> open another one up for list feed back:
>>
>> An updated version of the "prototype for" (formerly proto) operator 
>> proposal is at 
>> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:proto_operator
>>
>
> Just a small note on:
>
> "There are many other possible special character alternates to *|<||*. 
> For example, *||>|*, *|^^|*, *|*>|*, *|&>|*, *|^||*, *|<|-|*, etc. It 
> isn't clear that any of these is more meaningful or mnemonic than *|<||*."
>
> Perhaps just "less than" would be enough? Why we need two symbols? 
> It's by the way, a real implementation of subclassing in Ruby:
>
> class Foo
>   def alert
>     p "Called from Foo class"
>   end
> end
>
> class Bar < Foo
>   def alert
>     super
>   end
> end
>
> bar = Bar.new
> bar.alert # "Called from Foo class"
>
> It sounds quite logical -- "by hierarchy Bar is *less than* Foo".
>
> And also: what's happened to meta-properties in initialisers? It seems 
> to me that having them we get also the ability not only to specify the 
> proto, but also other control attributes for properties and to the 
> object. And since #-symbol has changed its semantics, and instead 
> ->-functions (or probably Ruby's blocks) are on agenda instead, maybe 
> we may use # exactly for meta properties?
>
> let foo = {x: 10};
>
> let bar = {
>
>   #proto: foo,
>   #closed
>
>   y: 20,
>   // etc.
>
> };
>
> Dmitry.

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