Sep 27 meeting notes

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

below

On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:

>> From: Waldemar Horwat <waldemar at google.com>
>> ...
> 
> 
> 1. Super property references (mainly methods)
> 2. Super constructor references
> 3. Subclassing (mainly wiring the prototypes)
> 4. Defining a class as compactly as possible (with subclassing, it is painful that one has to assemble so many pieces).
> 5. Having a standard construct that fosters IDE support. Currently there are too many inheritance APIs out there, making IDE support nearly impossible.
> 6. A platform on which to build future extensions (traits!).
> 
> Allen’s object literal extensions give us #1 and #2. His prototype operator gives us #3. #4 can be done via Allen’s pattern or by introducing the methods
> - Function.prototype.withPrototypeProperties(props)
> - Function.prototype.withClassProperties(props)
> 
> I’m not sure about #5 (I’d consider class literals a plus here).

I'd argue that my pattern also supports #5 as IDE's can recognize the pattern.  An imperative class definition of all that most Smalltalk implementations every had and they generally had fine IDEs.

> #6 can be postponed if we can get 1-5 by other means, but there will be a price to pay if two competing ways of defining classes have to be used in ES.next.next.
> 
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