From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-07-14T07:37:06+09:00
Subject: Re: prototype-0.1.0


On 13-Jul-06, at 6:29 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:
>
>> If you have a system like Io or NewtonScript which use a differential
>> inheritance model, only the changes from the object you are  
>> cloning will be
>> attached to your object, so you can change this template at a  
>> later time,
>> and anything that any object that cloned from it hasn't changed, will
>> receive those changes as well when they're used.
>
> i don't know too much about prototype based coding - but are you  
> saying this
> is 'normal/correct/intended' behaviour?
>
> [snip]

No I'm not saying that at all.

> my understanding is that the above is generally accepted behaviour  
> - but i'm
> not sure.

It is. My whole post before was in regards to ... not sure what his  
name is -- but whomever I was replying to -- his objection to using  
objects like templates; I tried to demonstrate that it's a perfectly  
acceptable design pattern in prototype-based languages, citing two  
examples.

--
Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna@blurgle.ca


"One serious obstacle to the adoption of good programming languages  
is the notion that everything has to be sacrificed for speed. In  
computer languages as in life, speed kills." -- Mike Vanier