Quote by Eric Freeman

“When you call an object’s method, this is set to the object whose method was called. If the method is not found in that…

— Eric Freeman

“the constructor always has a prototype property. More”

— Eric Freeman

“The hasOwnProperty method returns true if a property is defined in an object instance. If it’s not, but you can access that property, then…

— Eric Freeman

“JavaScript has a very powerful object model, but one that is a bit different than the status quo object-oriented language. Rather than the typical…

— Eric Freeman

“methods in objects are properties too. They just happen to have a function assigned to them.”

— Eric Freeman

“JavaScript doesn’t have a classical object-oriented model, where you create objects from classes. In fact, JavaScript doesn’t have classes at all. In JavaScript, objects…

— Eric Freeman

“Using a method to change a property is another example of encapsulation whereby we can often improve the maintainability and extensibility of code by…

— Eric Freeman

“using constructors still doesn’t prevent us from changing an object into something else later, because”

— Eric Freeman

A prototype is a question embodied

— Diego Rodriguez Telechea

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

— Larry Wall

“The properties of an object are automatically exposed, whereas the variables in a closure are automatically hidden.”

— David Herman

“Those readers new to object orientation typically assume a close relation exists between inheritance and reuse. We want to debunk this myth immediately. Though…

— Kirk Knoernschild