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JavaScript doesn't have inheritance? (Score:1)
Suppose that object A is object B's prototype and object B is object C's prototype and you add a method to A. Then C can call that method.
This sure looks like inheritance to me!
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That was my first thought too but *technically* C is a clone of B which is a clone of A, so there is no inheritance. Wikipedia's page on prototype programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming) helped clarify it for me.
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Sorry, but your technicality is simply wrong. If C was simply a clone of B then after the cloning operation B and C would be separate but equal. But if you create C then add properties to B, C will see those new properties. The converse is not true, new properties added to C are not visible to B. The relationship between an object and its prototype in JavaScript is not a straightforward cloning operation. Instead the newly created object (ahem) inherits properties from the prototype, which may in turn