On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:40 PM, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> You're prev response seems to have come from the discussion of
>> Object.create.
>
> No? We've been discussing the viability of a new Object.extend() method to be
> introduced in ES3.1.
The title of the thread is "object static methods rationale doc" and
the first post has a link to the doc.
The first mention of I see of "extend" was by Brendan, who merely
asked: "Did you consider prototype's Object.extend method."
To which Doug replied: "Yes we did."
And Allen later replied: "As far as I can recall, we didn't discuss a
specific formulation that corresponds to Object.extend"
> Mozilla has offered a proposal and is looking to implement it in SpiderMonkey.
I see a bug report for that mentioned in the thread.
"Object.extend" seems to be a misnomer for augmenting objects. It
might contrast with Prototype.js Object.extend. "augment" or "mixin"
or even "flatten" would do the trick.
/**
* Object.create
* @description Creates a new object based on \
* subject with propertyDescriptor as the [[Prototype]]
* @param subject
* @param {PropertyDescriptor} propertyDescriptor
* properties with attributes for A's prototype
*/
1) Object.create doesn't modify subject/receiver, extend does
2) Object.create takes objects, extend takes 2 functions + 1 object descriptor
>
> The aforementioned Object.create and YAHOO.lang.extend are a completely
> separate utilities which should be judged on their own merits.
And as I type this, I see now a new message from Allen: "I thought
that we were generally discussing how Object.extent related to the
Object meta functions that are already in the 3.1 draft."
That is what I though, too.
Garrett
>
> --John
>
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