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// Demonstrating @jashkenas's examples in an even-more-minimalist version of
// classes that only allow object-literal syntax for the class body.
// Basic usage; unchanged.
class Color {
constructor: function(hex) {
...
},
r: 1, g: 1, b: 1,
copy: function(color) {
...
},
setRGB: function(r, g, b) {
...
},
setHSV: function(h, s, v) {
...
}
}
// Subclassing; unchanged.
class Fox extends Animal {
...
}
// Class properties; unchanged.
Fox.CONSTANT = value;
// @jashkenas wrote:
// class Student objectContainingStudentProperties
class Student {}
// copy the own-properties from objectContainingStudentProperties into Student.prototype
// I plan to advocate a general |expr .= expr| form instead of "monocle-mustache,"
// which makes this simple:
Student.prototype .= objectContainingStudentProperties;
// Notice that this makes it clearer that we are *copying* own properties from the
// objectContainingStudentProperties object, instead of, say, sharing or proto-extending.
// @jashkenas wrote:
// class Protester merge(YoungAdult, WorkEthic, Idealism, {
// student: true
// })
class Protester {}
Protester.prototype .= merge(YoungAdult, WorkEthic, Idealism, {
student: true
});
// class expressions; unchanged
animals.push(class Fox {});
var subclass = function(parent) {
return class extends parent;
};
// @jashkenas wrote:
// var generateModelClass = function(columns) {
// var definition = {};
// columns.forEach(function(col) {
// definition['get' + col] = function() {
// return this[col];
// };
// definition['set' + col] = function(value) {
// return this[col] = value;
// };
// });
// return class definition;
// };
var generateModelClass = function(columns) {
var C = class {};
var p = C.prototype;
columns.forEach(function(col) {
p['get' + col] = function() {
return this[col];
};
p['set' + col] = function(value) {
return this[col] = value;
};
});
return C;
};
// Monster class example; unchanged
class Monster {
constructor: function(name, health) {
this.name = name;
this.health = health;
},
attack: function(target) {
log("The monster attacks " + target);
},
isAlive: function() {
return this.health > 0;
},
setHealth: function(value) {
if (value < 0) {
throw new Error("Health must be non-negative.");
}
this.health = value;
},
numAttacks: 0,
attackMessage: "The monster hits you!"
}
// The point in all this is that you can be just as dynamic if the body
// is restricted to an object literal, but you may have to use assignment
// to copy own-properties into the prototype from a dynamically computed
// source.
// tl;dr
// Even-more-minimal classes are an expression form ([] means optional):
// class [name] [extends parent] [object literal]
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FWIW, I'd like to +1 this.

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