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I'd say this guy is not adapting to the expressiveness of the language. He wants objects, but he's using a prototypical closure oriented language. 'this' is a n

by ghotli 16y ago

I'd say this guy is not adapting to the expressiveness of the language. He wants objects, but he's using a prototypical closure oriented language. 'this' is a needed construct to deal with the malleable scope contexts that closures provide.

dmatking 16y ago
It does make me question why the books and tutorials I have read on JavaScript want to cover so many object-oriented techniques. Why not treat it more like a functional or "prototypical closure oriented" language? Perhaps the author is on to something.
- blasdel 16y ago
  Because it's so much more ironic to brutalize the language with classicist inheritance and call it 'Prototype.js'