Re: Objects comparison ?

From	Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Objects comparison ?
Date	2011-10-20 12:23 -0700
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On Oct 20, 4:28 pm, John G Harris wrote:

 > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 at 14:18:10, in comp.lang.javascript, Scott
Sauyet
 >
 > [...]
 >
 > >    var MyConstructor = function() { /* ... */ };
 > >    MyConstructor.prototype = { /* ... */ }
 > >    MyConstructor.staticFunc1 = function() { /* ... */ };
 >
 > Well, yes, I don't think it's nice. Writing the code to
 > create an object is one job; writing quasi-global
 > functions for using these objects is another job. These
 > jobs might be done at different times, or by different
 > people.
 >
 > I can understand you wanting to use the constructor, but
 > have you ever thought of using a separate object to hold
 > things that are not inside the objects but are related to
 > them? (In C++ it would be a namespace).

He did. MyConstructor is one object. MyConstructor.prototype
is another.

 > [...]
 >
 > I think you've misunderstood me. I'm talking about
 > a bunch of objects, all of the same kind. Some have been
 > created by one constructor, some by another constructor.
 >
 > For instance, by
 >
 >    new Thing(2057, "left-handed sproggle")
 > which creates a new thing object holding the given values;
 >
 >    new ThingClone(t)
 > where 't' must be another thing object
 > which creates a new object with the same values as in t.
 > (In C++ ThingClone would be called a copy constructor.)
 >
 > Now, which of these constructors do you hang the
 > quasi-global functions from?

var t = Thing.make(2057, "left-handed sproggle");
var u = Thing.makeclone(t);

They're static factory methods if you're looking at this
from a the perspective of a class-based language. --Antony

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    Re: Objects comparaison ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-13 21:21 +0200
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                Re: Objects comparaison ? Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-15 15:51 -0700
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                Re: Objects comparaison ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-16 11:41 +0200
                Re: Objects comparaison ? dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-16 09:05 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-16 21:59 +0200
                Re: Objects comparaison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-17 10:53 +0100
                Re: Objects comparaison ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2011-10-17 07:02 -0700
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                Re: Objects comparaison ? dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2011-10-17 21:28 -0700
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                Re: Objects comparaison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-18 15:23 +0100
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-18 19:48 +0200
                Re: Objects comparaison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-19 17:08 +0100
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-20 23:58 +0200
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 15:46 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-18 10:55 +0200
                Re: Objects comparaison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-18 15:59 +0100
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-18 19:33 +0200
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 14:05 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2011-10-18 16:51 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2011-10-18 17:21 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 04:40 -0700
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                Re: Objects comparaison ? Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 17:14 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2011-10-19 18:33 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-10-23 11:43 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 15:32 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2011-10-19 16:54 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 17:32 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2011-10-19 18:39 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-19 16:32 +0100
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 14:18 -0700
                Re: Objects comparaison ? Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 15:46 -0700
                Objects comparison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-20 16:28 +0100
                Re: Objects comparison ? Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 12:23 -0700
                Re: Objects comparison ? Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 15:04 -0700
                Re: Objects comparison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-21 15:38 +0100
                Re: Objects comparison ? Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2011-10-22 19:40 +0200
                Re: Objects comparison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-23 11:49 +0100
                Re: Objects comparison ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-24 19:00 +0200
                Re: Objects comparison ? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-10-21 05:29 -0700
                Re: Objects comparison ? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-21 16:30 +0100
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      Re: Objects comparaison ? unbewusst.sein@fai.invalid (Une Bévue) - 2011-10-14 06:11 +0200
        Re: Objects comparaison ? "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-10-14 08:07 +0300
          Re: Objects comparaison ? unbewusst.sein@fai.invalid (Une Bévue) - 2011-10-14 07:31 +0200
            Re: Objects comparaison ? "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-10-14 08:59 +0300
              Re: Objects comparaison ? unbewusst.sein@fai.invalid (Une Bévue) - 2011-10-14 08:36 +0200
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