the new statement

[Jake Verbaten]

The "OO" example uses a new operator

// First create a fast shallow clone of the Rectangle prototype

rect = new Rectangle

// Then initialize it using a one of the functions

rect.initialize(rect, 3, 5)

Personally I like having new as a fast shallow clone however having to call initialize manually is a pain

You could support

rect = new Rectangle(3, 5)

which would desugar to 

rect = new Rectangle
rect:initialize(3,5)

[Tim Caswell]

Remember that candor is to js like C is to C++.  C++ has constructors, but in C, you malloc your struct (or declare it local) and then pass it to some initialize function.  The thing I really don't like about new in JS is all the magic it does.  It makes learning the language really hard.

Fast clone and : syntax are almost all the primitives needed to implement your own oop framework.  The main thing missing is varargs.  If we has varargs, for example, I could write this:

    Object = {

      new: (self, ...) {

        obj = new self

        if (obj.initialize) obj:initialize(...)

        return obj

      }

    }

    Rect = new Object

    Rect.initialize = (self, w, h) {

      self.w = w

      self.h = h

    }

    r = Rect:new(4, 5)

[Jake Verbaten]

I actually think I agree with you on that.

Having the new keyword desugar to initialization invoking is too much magic.

[Bradley Meck]

Just a note for future viewers of this post. In order to deal with Objects that must be initialized via (somewhat repetitive) configuration, please make a configurable factory.

[Jake Verbaten]

When you say configurable factory do you mean something like

Proto = { ... }

factory(state) {
  o = new Proto
  o.state = state
  return o
}

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Bradley Meck <bradle...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just a note for future viewers of this post. In order to deal with Objects that must be initialized via (somewhat repetitive) configuration, please make a configurable factory.

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[Fedor Indutny]

Jake,

I think it's more like this:

https://github.com/creationix/candor.io/commit/02c8a8b67b9871ba79254a6ade3fc2c6be5e8f89#L3R4

(All credits to Tim Caswell).

Cheers,

Fedor.