Yeah, I forgot about anonymous classes again. :-) Sadly (as a fan of using the classname) I so think that's a good argument.
G. On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > Yet didn't we go over this previously? > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-June/015014.html (from you > ;-) > > in reply to > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-June/015012.html (from Bob > Nystrom) > > It's also a bit novel to preempt the class name in its own prototype, but > usually ok. Any of {constructor, new, <classname>} is a special form as > noted. It's true that 'constructor' avoids collision but OTOH, it's overlong. > None of these names avoids magic wiring behind the scene. > > Someone on twitter pointed out that class name minifies well, but so does > constructor, and anyway transport-encoding compression makes this moot. > > Anonymous classes are an important use case IMHO, to match anonymous > functions and the prototypal pattern. > > /be > > > Gavin Barraclough wrote: >> On Mar 23, 2012, at 12:42 AM, Claus Reinke wrote: >> >>> - would it make sense to name the constructor after the class >>> (avoiding 'constructor' and 'new')? >> >> I was about to suggest exactly the same thing. >> >> If I see a line of code saying >> let x = new FooBar(); >> and want to understand what it does, I'm instinctively looking for a >> function named FooBar, not one named either 'new' or 'constructor'. >> >> Between 'new' and 'constructor', new seems like the better choice to me. >> Whilst it is true that prototypes currently contain a constructor property, >> I don't see a lot of code that explicitly accesses this. In terms of the >> language actually actively in use in scripts by ES programmers, 'new' is >> currently in the common lexicon, and 'constructor' doesn't seem to be. [ I >> make this statement on casual observation rather than any empirical >> evidence. :-) ] >> >> cheers, >> G. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
