JS has things called classes and objects, but their behaviors are not what the OO community means by object oriented.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 1:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Who writes these things? On 2019-09-27 12:32 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: >>> JavaScript OO was specifically designed around DOM. >> What language features do you believe have anything to do with DOM? > If you've used javascript, you will have noticed it doesn't have "CLASS". The > functionality exists but not in a way OO programmers would expect. There are > others but they are much harder to explain. ECMAScript 6 introduced classes in 2015 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes. It's syntactic sugar wrapped over the prototype but everybody has started to use classes. Of course, you can easily create objects in JavaScript simply by using closures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
