On Nov 17, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Nebojša Ćirić wrote: > Q. API is too Java like. Use shorthand to invoke formatters. > A. I would like to hear proposals on how to make it more JS like. Adding > shorthand syntax is easy, but most of TC39 members were against having 2 ways > of doing things first time we proposed it. > Here is an example of current API in action - http://pastebin.com/pjfdKYss > > > Would converting constructors into factories help make API less Java like? > > For example, instead of: > > var dtf = new DateTimeFormat(...); > > we have > > var dtf = createDateTimeFormat(...);
No, that's worse. Constructors used with 'new' are ok if you really need a new object to do something. What's JS-esque is to use a *function* when you don't need to allocate an object just to call one method on it, then let it become garbage to collect. Also being able to use the function as a first-class value (pass it around as a funarg, stick it on some other object, decorate it with ad-hoc properties). /be
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