resig simple inheritence with statics
attach property 'klass' to prototype, any property added will be shared across all instances of that class and subclasses, each subclass gets a new instance of klass chained to the parent.
by M K
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JavaScript
// modify to include sharing of static members
/* Simple JavaScript Inheritance
* By John Resig http://ejohn.org/
* MIT Licensed.
*/
// Inspired by base2 and Prototype
(function() {
var initializing = false,
fnTest = /xyz/.test(function() {
xyz;
}) ? /\b_super\b/ : /.*/;
// The base Class implementation (does nothing)
this.Class = function() {};
// Create a new Class that inherits from this class
Class.extend = function(prop,staticProp) {
var _super = this.prototype;
// Instantiate a base class (but only create the instance,
// don’t run the init constructor)
initializing = true;
var prototype = new this();
initializing = false;
// Copy the properties over onto the new prototype
for (var name in prop) {
// Check if we’re overwriting an existing function
prototype[name] = typeof prop[name] == "function" &&
typeof _super[name] == "function" && fnTest.test(prop[name]) ?
(function(name, fn) {
return function() {
var tmp = this._super;
// Add a new ._super() method that is the same method
// but on the super-class
this._super = _super[name];
// The method only need to be bound temporarily, so we
// remove it when we’re done executing
var ret = fn.apply(this, arguments);
this._super = tmp;
return ret;
};
})(name, prop[name]) :
prop[name];
}
// The dummy class constructor
function Class() {
// All construction is actually done in the init method
if (!initializing && this.init)
this.init.apply(this, arguments);
}
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