Re: Objects comparaison ?

From	Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Objects comparaison ?
Date	2011-10-19 17:32 -0700
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On Oct 20, 12:54 am, "Michael Haufe (TNO)" wrote:

 > On Oct 19, 5:32 pm, Antony Scriven <adscri...@gmail.com> wrote:
 >
 > > On Oct 19, 1:21 am, "Michael Haufe (TNO)" wrote:
 >
 > > > On Oct 18, 6:51 pm, "Michael Haufe (TNO)">
<t...@thenewobjective.com> wrote:
 >
 > > >
 > > > > On Oct 18, 4:05 pm, Scott Sauyet
 > > > > <scott.sau...@gmail.com> wrote:
 > > >
 > > > > > John G Harris wrote:
 > > > > > > Object is a constructor. Its job is to *construct*,
 > > > > > > not to act like a Christmas tree with shiny
 > > > > > > ornaments dangling from it.
 > > >
 > > > > > So, do you also object to Object.create, Date.parse,
 > > > > > Number.NaN, String.fromCharCode and everywhere else
 > > > > > the language associates 'static' properties with
 > > > > > constructor functions?
 > > >
 > > > > Yes
 > > >
 > > > More productively, and for the sake of argument only:
 > > >
 >
 > > Well, since we're already off-topic :-)
 >
 > > > String.fromCharCode    ->  7.fromCharCode()
 >
 > > And neither of those can be usefully passed to map(). :-(
 >
 > If this was pure OOP, there wouldn't be a separate map function in
the
 > first place of course.
 >
 > [1,2,3].map(...
 >     this.fromCharCode()
 > ...)

So map() doesn't have take a function parameter now?

 > I guess if we really want to get esoteric and proper, we
 > could say that map doesn't belong to anything but
 > a Functor...

Sure, it's a functor, but we're talking about a specific way
of applying it to an array.

 > > > Date.parse("July 28, 2005") ->  "July 28, 2005".parseDate()
 >
 > > I would have thought that knowing how to parse a date is the
 > > domain of the Date object.
 >
 > Or maybe to the Parsing object?

Well that would be p = new Parser('date'). You may as well
have a Computation object for all computation.

 > Of course I just wanted to express the idea of
 > _everything_ being of the form foo.bar, though I did so
 > poorly on the first go.

I think part of the problem is that Javascript is largely
functional. It has some sort of organizational notation
using {} (I'm avoiding the term 'object' here) which can be
used to simulate the OO style, but I don't think it's OO in
the usual sense. So I'm not sure that everything should be
foo.bar(). It's not a message-passing language.

 > > > //Number.NaN makes as much sense to me as Number.7
 > > > Number.NaN  ->  NaN
 >
 > > Or Math.PI?
 >
 > Indeed

I've lost track of the argument now :-) --Antony

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