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On 11-09-13 11:36 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
[ SNIP ]

JS doesn't support OO in the classical
> way, and how `this' gets resolved is actually handled by the way you
> call the method.
[ SNIP ]

I point out somewhat tongue-in-cheek that JavaScript indeed isn't
"classical" OO, since it's not class-based OO; rather it's object-based
(prototype-based) OO. I think the argument can be made that it's a purer
and more fundamental object-orientation, since you dispense with the
class baggage.

I confess to being seriously biased: lots of experimentation with
non-Web JS programming, and Self and Lua programming. And certainly some
strengths of Scala lead one to think more about runtime objects and not
so much about instances of classes.

Even though "classical" is strictly speaking a correct description of
class-based OO, I sort of prefer "dominant" or "original". Or just
"class-based". Again revealing my bias, I think class-based OO has done
some degree of harm to object-oriented programming, so I am reluctant to
associate it with a word like "classical".

AHS
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