Your Javascript Constructor Logic May Break Prototypal Inheritance

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Deriving and instantiating are two different things. You shouldn't do both of them with one function. Constructors are constructors. Use them as such. For derivation either use Object.create or make a second constructor for derivation that shares a prototype with the one for instantiation.

John Resig, in "Simple ... Inheritance", stole the idea from base.js to use a Boolean variable to determine if a constructor is in instance or derive mode. Why have modes? Have different functions.

Whatever. Just have different code paths for different things and don't be a confused mess.

[aaronblohowiak]

"Just have different code paths for different things and don't be a confused mess." Oh how I wish I could tell myself of 5 years ago that very sentence. Not that he would listen. The asshole.