From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-08-01T21:56:46+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the correct way to extend native methods?



On Jul 31, 9:19 pm, Maurizio De Santis <desantis.mauri...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> suppose I want to modify Array.slice() (and consequentially, Array[]) in
> order to accept a RegExp as argument, and return values matching the
> regular expression. I tried to solve this problem in this way:

DON'T!

It's almost always a bad idea to override a built-in core method.
There are likely to be unintended effects that will break other code.
The best approach is to define a new method and use that.