PUBLIC MARKS from amyrussell with tag patterns

Tight on the heels of my article on the evils of 'extends' and Scriptaculous, Bernard Sumption, the author of Animator.js, has expounded on why he thinks it is evil and must be destroyed.

Holub can be a bit controversial in OO circles. He throws bombs like "getters and setters considered harmful." Not everyone likes or respects him, but beneath some of that hyperbolic language, he makes some good points. Some of the arguments he makes about OO in general, and Java in particular, can easily be applied to the world of JavaScript and Ajax libraries.

In explaining this pattern, I wanted to take a step back and explain where and how OO and BRE's intersect. To start with, this excellent post over at Mark Proctor's blog makes the following statement: