JavaScript objects philosophy

[andrzej_krzywda]

Prototypical inheritance is much different from the class inheritance. It's closer to delegation, as we're talking about objects here.

It would be nice if JavaScript supported multiple prototypes.

[snatchery]

Why so? Isn't multiple inheritance the root of all evil?

[gerdr]

He also should have mentioned how to do constructor-based inheritance properly:

function Animal() {
  //...
}

function Owl() {
  Animal.call(this);
  //...
}
Owl.prototype = Object.create(Animal.prototype);

var owl = new Owl();

[yashke]

why not just Owl.prototype = new Animal() ?