Re: Node's __proto__

On Mar 12, 7:00=A0am, Bobby Holley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
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> |Node| and |Element| are both constructor objects. They both have the same
> proto, and it's very uninteresting (the proto of that object is
> Object.prototype).
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> Things like |Node| and |Element| are just kind of waystations on the way =
to
> things like Node.prototype and Element.prototype. Those are the __proto__s
> for actual Node and Element instances, and they form a nice inheritance
> hierarchy (ie: Element.prototype.__proto__ =3D=3D=3D Node.prototype).
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> But we also do a lot of that stuff wrong in Gecko, as it stands. For
> example, each prototype has a flattened version of all methods and
> properties it inherits. But we're fixing this all soon.
>
> Cheers,
> bholley
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> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Eric J. Van der Velden <
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> [email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
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> > What is Node.__proto__ , or Element.__proto__ ?
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> > Thanks
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> > Eric J.
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Hi Bobby,

Thank you very much for taking the effort to explain this to me.

I understand for example that
Node.prototype.__proto__=3D=3D=3DObject.prototype, but although
uninteresting, I still would like to know what I should write on
the ... in Node.__proto__=3D=3D=3D....prototype. I'll tell you why. I
thought I had it all figured out, but it apparently is not true.
Because Object is a function, Object.__proto__=3D=3D=3DFunction.prototype.
So I thought: Function.__proto__=3D=3D=3DFunction.prototype. I thought
Function in JavaScript similar to Object in Java. But it is not true.
So what is Function.__proto__, Node.__proto__, ...?

Also what do you mean by "each prototype has a flattened version of
all methods and properties it inherits"?

Thanks,

Eric J.