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- 22"Couldn't JavaScript implement ... proper classes?" No. It already has proper prototypes. Prototypes are not inferior to classes. They are different. People have tried adding classes to JavaScript at various times and have been rather unsuccessful.Rein Henrichs– Rein Henrichs2011-05-26 21:11:43 +00:00Commented May 26, 2011 at 21:11
- 5@Rein: And yet somehow ActionScript managed it...Mason Wheeler– Mason Wheeler2011-05-26 21:27:55 +00:00Commented May 26, 2011 at 21:27
- 8@Tom there aren't "built-in classes". There's no such thing as a class in a prototypal language. You keep conflating the two paradigms.Rein Henrichs– Rein Henrichs2011-05-26 22:07:57 +00:00Commented May 26, 2011 at 22:07
- 1I personally find the anonymous function language feature more flexible than classes. However I do like functional programming in which this idiom is common.iteratingself– iteratingself2011-05-27 02:38:26 +00:00Commented May 27, 2011 at 2:38
- 1For others, here: brianodell.net/?page_id=516 is an awesome primer on JavaScript as a prototypal language.Tom Auger– Tom Auger2011-06-15 16:59:33 +00:00Commented Jun 15, 2011 at 16:59
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