domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-07-16T14:32:05.359Z)
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> ```js
> false.hasOwnProperty('whatever');
> 1.0.isPrototypeOf({whate:'ver'});
> 'string'.propertyIsEnumerable('whatever')
> ```
> these are already examples of an over-polluted prototype with methods
> nobody uses ... I thought 4 extra methods everyone is using same way except
> for Rick that honorees Tesla in this day would not hurt much but once
> again, my point is that it's really about the time to put some standard
> mechanism to deal with events in ES code.
>
> The fact Object.observe is already accepting a handler with an argument
> which is fired as an event smells to me ... I'd rather define upfront a
> common definition of handlers then propose any extra method based on them
> ;-)
But they're different things entirely. Object.observe is an implicit
invocation, observer pattern (some may accuse me of being redundant there,
I forgive them) that announces the relevant states and state changes in the
life of an object.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote: > false.hasOwnProperty('whatever'); > 1.0.isPrototypeOf({whate:'ver'}); > 'string'.propertyIsEnumerable('whatever') > > these are already examples of an over-polluted prototype with methods > nobody uses ... I thought 4 extra methods everyone is using same way except > for Rick that honorees Tesla in this day would not hurt much but once > again, my point is that it's really about the time to put some standard > mechanism to deal with events in ES code. > > The fact Object.observe is already accepting a handler with an argument > which is fired as an event smells to me ... I'd rather define upfront a > common definition of handlers then propose any extra method based on them > ;-) > But they're different things entirely. Object.observe is an implicit invocation, observer pattern (some may accuse me of being redundant there, I forgive them) that announces the relevant states and state changes in the life of an object. Rick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20130710/f355e7cd/attachment.html>