Re: [whatwg] [URL] DOM API Feedback from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-11-19 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from November 2012)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:20:43 -0800
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDBSZZngGA9V5Kz9TT+Gh=Hy5+D5TY+Lsecq22BueZTvA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 11/19/12 11:16 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Subclasses aren't anything new - we're just referring to the standard
>> prototype-based subclassing.
>
> OK.  That's different from ES6 classes/subclasses, so it might be good to
> get terminology straight here to reduce confusion....

To a first approximation, they shouldn't be.  ES6 classes desugar into
functions and prototypes.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 19 November 2012 16:34:57 UTC