> Sorry to interject, but was the rationale for needing a new syntax for > this (vs. an API-based solution) presented anywhere? I can't seem to find > it. >
Feel free to correct me here... The current setup (with @@create) was designed to provide sugar for ES5-style OOP. As such, it separates allocation (the `new` part) from initialization (the constructor part). It's very elegant. However, this appears to be unsatisfactory when subclassing built-in and host-provided classes. For those cases, we don't want to expose "allocated but uninitialized" objects (e.g. DOM objects implemented in C++). So separating allocation from initialization is not desired for those cases. This led us to the idea of setting the "this" value from within the constructor itself, essentially fusing "constructor" and "@@create" into one function. "new^" is argument originally provided to @@create. (Is that right?) "this=" is how you initialize the this object (previously the return value from @@create). Allen, is that a fair run-down?
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