Minimalist (why) classes ?

[Rick Waldron]

On Nov 13, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Jake Verbaten <raynos2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Neither of them are fit for standardization. Selfish and Prototype are both incapable of correctly "deep copying" arrays or objects,
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> Why does it matter that they don't deep copy? Deep copying is a difficult problem that needs to be standardized separately.


It matters because I don't want data pollution across "instances". It's not a hard problem at all, jQuery.extend() has had deep copy for years. 




> I've personally avoided deep copying for this reason and don't use it anymore.
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> One can accept that an extend is merely a shallow copy properties by reference, because this (although limited) behavior is easy to understand. 
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> I have a version of Object.extend that is a "shallow own merge".
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> However having a deep copy mechanism that works without obscure edge-cases would be great. Of course it would be nice if we had the choice of deep vs shallow copy within the API.
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