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# object.js # object.js
_object.js_ provides a meta-constructor and a set of tools and utilities _object.js_ is a set of tools and abstractions to create and manage
to aid in object/instance construction and implementing dynamic data and constructors, objects and prototype chains in idiomatic JavaScript.
functionality inheritance within the established JavaScript prototypical
object model and interfaces.
This is an alternative to the ES6 `class` syntax in JavaScript and provides This is an alternative to the ES6 `class` syntax in JavaScript and provides
several advantages: several advantages:
- Uniform and minimalistic definition syntax based on basic JavaScript - _Uniform and minimalistic_ definition syntax based on basic JavaScript
object syntax, no special cases, special syntax or _"the same but slightly object literals. No special cases, special syntax or _"the same but slightly
different"_ ways to do things, different"_ ways to do things,
- _Transparently_ based on JavaScript's prototypical inheritance model, - _Transparently_ based on JavaScript's prototypical inheritance model,
- Produces fully introspectable constructors/instances,
- Does not try to emulate constructs foreign JavaScript (i.e. classes),
- Granular 2-stage instance construction and initialization (a-la - Granular 2-stage instance construction and initialization (a-la
_Python's_ `.__new__(..)` and `.__init__(..)` methods), _Python's_ `.__new__(..)` and `.__init__(..)` methods),
- Simple way to define callable instances (including a-la _Python's_ - Simple way to define callable instances (including a-la _Python's_
`.__call__(..)`), `.__call__(..)`),
- Produces fully introspectable constructors/instances, i.e. no _direct_
way to define "private" attributes or methods,
- Does not try to emulate constructs not present in the language (classes),
- Less restrictive: - Less restrictive:
- `new` is optional, - `new` is optional,
- all input components are reusable JavaScript objects, - all input components are reusable JavaScript objects,
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- No _syntactic sugar_, - No _syntactic sugar_,
- Slightly more complicated calling of `parent` (_super_) methods. - Slightly more complicated calling of `parent` (_super_) methods.
Note that the produced constructors and objects are functionally Note that the produced constructors and objects are functionally
identical (almost) to the ones produced via ES6 classes and are identical (almost) to the ones produced via ES6 classes and are
interchangeable with them. interchangeable with them.