On Jul 11, 11:25 pm, Jörn Zaefferer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ha, after all it was a good idea to keep jQuery's discussion list > archives. I think I found what I was looking for, for anyone else > interested:http://twologic.com/projects/inheritance/ > > The API is definitely extremely nice.
"Inheritance.js is a plugin for the Prototype JavaScript" If you get it rewritten for jQuery (or standalone use), could you please post it here? Unrelated side-note: on that page he writes: "However, the constructor function must be executed in order to create a prototype object for any child classes. In such cases, the constructor function is now also acting as a prototype initializer. This double duty often results in very subtle bugs, that can often be hard to find." i found one such bug while writing JS extensions in C++ using SpiderMonkey: in SpiderMonkey, the native-side prototype object never gets its ctor called, which means that when implementing the native destructor (in C/C++) one must often take care not to perform normal cleanup operations when the prototype object's dtor is run. Weird, but true: Monkey cannot call a ctor for a prototype because a ctor might require arguments, and a prototype must be initialized without arguments. :)
