Most of you misses the point, it is sadly. Why it is preferred to have shorter code (as long it does not add any complexity) is it because it will make it easier to understand what is happening. That is the largest difference between a low level programming language and a high level programming language. It is the same thing when anyone type 1+1. It is indeed an abstraction and how it is implemented underneath can we just ignore.
In my opinion it is indeed better to group methods close to each other. My helper does not add any direct complexity and no "context" is lost, as long we know what we helper does as we do. However it has some advantages: - It forces the user to write code which can easily be highly optimized by the JavaScript engine. All class methods will be defined in the prototype and all variables be bound to the object context. No need to be a good Java Script programmer. - It can take multiple other compile options, so we can example add cache options, so the helper automatically set up a cache for some methods, specially deterministic methods. Multiple inheritance can probably also be properly implemented, so the instanceof operator will work as it can be expected, which in that case would be better to use than most mixins. You most remember that if you create a mixin and when assign 10 different prototypes a set of methods (using a mixin) will the JavaScript engine have very hard to optimize it. What you do is actually indeed multiple inheritance, but you are not telling the JavaScript engine about it. If you would, would it probably give better performance, both in speed and memory consumption. You does also a terrible mistake, even if an object has a set of methods, does it not mean it implements those methods in that way you may believe. The only properly way to actually check this is to use the instanceof operator. It would be most safe and probably the fastest way to check this. tjholowaychuk: I assume when you taking about C++ ambiguous invocation you mean operator overloading? A line like: "a = b + c" may invoke several functions. In that case can I tell you it is a huge benefit to the language and is there to make it easier to human to read, as long it is properly overloaded. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
