http://localhost:1313/tags/javascript/ Recent content in Javascript on UberMongoose Hugo en-us Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:03:43 +0530 http://localhost:1313/post/javascript-classical-inheritance/ Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:03:43 +0530 http://localhost:1313/post/javascript-classical-inheritance/ <p>Javascript isn’t a classical language. <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Inheritance_and_the_prototype_chain">It’s prototypal</a>, which is a bit like every object being a class in waiting. You can create graphs of objects where one object inherits from another, but the idea of classes doesn’t really exist.</p> <p>This can be a drawback, specially with code encapsulation. It becomes difficult to hide private implementation details from public interfaces to the object because Javascript provides no native access modifiers. There is however a number of methods for simulating classical inheritance and encapsulation in Javascript while things nice and clean</p>