> Can you show an example (and also the same example which is solved by > es-proposed super-calls)? > > The technique I showed of course initially is designed to be used with > class-system; though, I think it can be adopted to class-free system as well.
Code taken from https://gist.github.com/1330574#L68 Object.defineProperty(Object.prototype, "super", { value: function (method) { let proto = Object.getPrototypeOf(this); // we should use exactly this link and not // proto.__proto__ i.e. Object.getPrototypeOf(proto) // since in other case we can go away to i-looping let parentProto = proto.__parentProto__; // remove "__parentProto__" property from // our prototype to avoid i-looping; at 3rd and // later levels the property will be found just deeper delete proto.__parentProto__; // call the parent method parentProto[method].apply(this, [].slice.call(arguments, 1)); // and restore "__parentProto__" back Object.defineProperty(proto, "__parentProto__", { value: parentProto, writable: true, configurable: true }); } }); Two more comments: - The code does not work if an instance method makes a super-call. - No matter where you are in a prototype chain, you will always delete and restore __parentProto__ in the second chain member (in the prototype of |this|). Have you tested it with more than two recursive super-calls? What might work is something like the following: When you look for super.foo(), traverse the prototype chain, starting at |this|. Look for the *second* occurrence of "foo". Record the object where you have found it in this["obj_of_super_"+"foo"] (which you delete after the super-call returns). In subsequent super-calls, you can start your search at this.obj_of_super_foo (instead of |this|). The above effectively records where a method has been found, but does it more indirectly (and waits until super has been called). However, this still fails when one of the super.foo() starts to call this.foo() (which is perfectly OK if there are parameters involved that prevent an infinite recursion). -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
