No engine has implemented subclassing of `Array`, yet: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#Array_is_subclassable <http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#Array_is_subclassable>

And, as Sebastian mentioned, you can’t transpile it, because it depends on the cooperation of `Array`: it becomes the base constructor and allocates an exotic array instance (with special handling for `length` etc.) whose prototype is `new.target`.

Axel


> On 11 Apr 2015, at 03:57, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/10/15, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de> wrote:
>> The reason why you need to call the super-constructor from a derived class
>> constructor is due to where ES6 allocates instances - they are allocated
>> by/in the base class (this is necessary so that constructors can be
>> subclassed that have exotic instances, e.g. `Array`):
>> 
> Can you please explain how extending Array works. Also what is the
> optional identifier optional for in ClassExpression:
> 
> var myArray = (new class B extends Array {
>   constructor() {
>     super(1,2,3,4,5);
>  }
> });
> alert(myArray.length); // it's 0 in Babel.
> 
> -- 
> Garrett
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No engine has implemented subclassing of `Array`, yet: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#Array_is_subclassable

And, as Sebastian mentioned, you can’t transpile it, because it depends on the cooperation of `Array`: it becomes the base constructor and allocates an exotic array instance (with special handling for `length` etc.) whose prototype is `new.target`.