JS OOP inheritance idea

js-oop-example.txt

Source URL http://www.sitepoint.com/simple-inheritance-javascript/
This article makes inheritance in OOP easy to understand. 

It did get me thinking. In the article above, the author uses 

	var inheritsFrom = function (child, parent) {
	    child.prototype = Object.create(parent.prototype);
	};
	
Then calls the function to establish inheritance like this

	inheritsFrom(ClassB, ClassA);

When I read the function call above, I feel like it could be misunderstood.
If I wasn't looking at the function definition, it would be easy to pass 
the arguments in the wrong order. I was thinking about how to make
it more clear. Here's something I was thinking about

	Object.prototype.inherits = function (parent) {
		this.prototype = Object.create(parent.prototype);
	};

Using this, inheritance could then be written as the following.

	ClassB.inherits( ClassA );
	
Are there any problems that you can see with this approach?


        

Like it a lot!! This is even clearer

It just occurred to me that Object might be the wrong "class" to use. That would allow things "firstName".inherits( ClassA ) which is weird. Function is probably more accurate. Like so.

Function.prototype.inherits = function (parent) {
    this.prototype = Object.create(parent.prototype);
};