On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
<al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Rick Waldron wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm the past we discussed issues surrounding the semantic differences
>> between "put" and "define" and we've agreed to include Object.assign in ES6.
>> We have also discussed Object.define but have not yet made a decision to
>> include it.
>>
>> Nicholas Zaka recently posted a short article that addresses issues
>> relating to the assign/define distinction
>> http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/12/11/are-your-mixins-ecmascript-5-compatible/
>> as they already surface in ES5.
>>
>> For me, this article reenforces that we really need to have something like
>> Object.define in ES6.
>>
>> It also made me think that perhaps Object.mixin might be a more intuitive
>> name for such a function.
>
>
> This name is certainly more real-word-friendly.
>
> The example code that follows "A pure ECMAScript 5 version of mixin() would
> be:" is basically what I imagined Object.define would be, but with a slight
> modification in that Object.assign returns the target object, so should
> Object.mixin:
>
>
> Except,
> 1) It needs to iterate own keys, not just string valued property names so it
> will pick up properties whose keys are symbols
> 2) It needs to rebind super references
> 3) I don't see any reason that it should be restricted to enumerable
> properties. If the intend is to deprecate enumerable along with for-in then
> we should be adding new functionality that is sensitive to the state of the
> enumerable attribute.
"should not"?
>
> Allen
>
>
>
>
>
> Object.mixin = function(receiver, supplier) {
> return Object.keys(supplier).reduce(function(receiver, property) {
> return Object.defineProperty(
> receiver, property, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(supplier,
> property)
> );
> }, receiver);
> };
>
>
> var a = {}, name = "Rick";
>
> var b = Object.mixin(a, {
> get name() {
> return name;
> }
> });
>
> console.log( a.name ); // "Rick"
> console.log( b.name ); // "Rick"
> console.log( a === b ); // true
>
>
> Rick
>
>
>
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Cheers,
--MarkM
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