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// A response to jashkenas's fine proposal for minimalist JavaScript classes. | |
// Harmony always stipulated classes as sugar, so indeed we are keeping current | |
// JavaScript prototype semantics, and classes would only add a syntactic form | |
// that can desugar to ES5. This is mostly the same assumption that Jeremy | |
// chose, but I've stipulated ES5 and used a few accepted ES.next extensions. | |
// Where I part company is on reusing the object literal. It is not the syntax | |
// most classy programmers expect, coming from other languages. It has annoying | |
// and alien overhead, namely colons and commas. For JS community members who |
This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:
http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer