Subclassing an array and array methods
Jake Verbaten
raynos2 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 06:08:21 PST 2011
In es-next we should be able to subclass an array
function createArraySubclass(proto, ...values) {
return proto <| [...values];
}
However when we call `instanceOfSubArray.filter(...)` this method returns a
new Array rather then a new SubArray.
It would seem frustrating to have to overwrite all array methods that
return arrays and make them return subarrays.
Can we have array methods returning new instance of [[Prototype]] to make
it easier to overwrite the build in?
However this should only apply to true array subclasses. In the above
example I would assume the [[Class]] of the object is Array. It should not
apply to [].slice.call(arrayLikeObject)
Do we have other situations where it would make sense to return an instance
of whatever prototype your operation on rather then a hardcoded new X ?
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