I'm curious. In your view, on what basis is JS more OO than Ruby? If anything I'd say that it was the other way around. (Note that both are far more OO than Perl.)

For example in Ruby if you sort an array of numbers, it defaults to sorting them as numbers. In JavaScript it defaults to sorting them alphabetically, no matter what their types are.

For another example, in Ruby I can trivially add a new method to Integer, and then call my new method on the integer 5. In JS it works, but much less consistently. This works: 

Number.prototype.foo = function () {alert("Hi!")};
x = 5;
x.foo();

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But this doesn't (at least not in Firefox): 
Number.prototype.foo = function () {alert("Hi!")};
5.foo();

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That isn't what I expect from a completely object-oriented language!

Furthermore the OO hooks in Ruby are much more pervasive than in JavaScript. For instance I once tried to write a fairly efficient factorial function in Ruby. I found that it was more efficient than the routine to convert big integers to strings! So I replaced the routine to convert big integers to strings.

I wouldn't even dream of messing around in the internals like that in JavaScript.

In reply to Re^3: I dislike object-oriented programming in general by tilly
in thread I dislike object-oriented programming in general by vrk

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