Some questions about Private Name Objects

[Rick Waldron]

I just spoke to Allen and need to make a correction the post above:
computed properties were, in fact, later dropped.

Rick

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Irakli Gozalishvili <rfobic at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Hey Dean,
>
> I also really love clojure protocols and in fact tried to propose few
> extensions for private names to make them little more usable as such:
>
> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-June/023657.html
> https://gist.github.com/2967124
>
> Unfortunately thread did not got any replies from anyone.
>
> That being said I did couple of experiments in these area:
>
> Implemented clojure like protocols as library:
> http://jeditoolkit.com/2012/03/21/protocol-based-polymorphism.html#post
>
> But after using it for some time I realised it was not very javascripty,
> so I have prototyped a more minimalistic version, which I'm using happily
> since then:
>
> https://github.com/Gozala/method
>
> I still really wish we could make private names callable such that:
>
> var method = Name()
>
> method(object, arg1, arg2) => object[method](arg1, arg2)
>
>
>
> Regards
> --
> Irakli Gozalishvili
> Web: http://www.jeditoolkit.com/
>
>  On Thursday, 2012-09-13 at 14:46 , Dean Landolt wrote:
>
> The real point I'm trying to make is that Name objects give us something
> akin to clojure's protocols. Imagine an "orm" protocol -- this is just a
> set of names that must exist on an object (or its proto chain). An object
> can implement any number of protocols (or interfaces, or whatever) without
> fear of conflict. You can easily override any implementation so long as you
> have a handle on the appropriate name object. This is easier, better
> looking and more correct than anything we can do today. It's not too
> disimilar from using using instanceof as a brand, but without the pitfalls
> (it doesn't fall flat crossing sandbox boundaries). This is a safe and
> flexible inheritance model that works just as a js programmer would expect,
> all without begging for mutable or multiple prototypes.
>
>
>
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