Function.prototype.isClassOf(generic)

[Andrea Giammarchi]

Surely already discussed, I forgot the outcome.

Why we have Array.isArray but not a more generic Function.isClassOf() ?

Here an absolutely not optimized idea of what I am talking about:

Function.prototype.isClassOf = function isClassOf(obj) {
  if (obj == null) return false;
  var Class = {}.toString.call(obj);
  return Class == '[object ' + this.name + ']' || (
    Class == '[object Object]' &&
    obj instanceof this
  );
};

function UserDefined() {}

alert([
  Array.isClassOf([]), // true
  Object.isClassOf({}), // true
  Function.isClassOf(function(){}), // true
  Boolean.isClassOf(false), // true
  UserDefined.isClassOf(new UserDefined), // true
  Object.isClassOf([]) // false
].join('\n'));

If the answer is about not polluting prototypes, I wonder how many
developers out there for/in functions, 'cause if they do, they have to
check own property and remove 'length' and 'name' anyhow.

Thoughts?
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