Subj : Re: javadoc-like tool for JS?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Harald Albrecht <Harald.Albrecht@plt.rwth-aachen.de>
Date : Sat Feb 08 2003 03:59 pm

Smaug wrote:
> Todd Trimmer wrote:
>> The funny thing about JavaScript is that the constructor and class are 
>> the
>> same verbal scope. I was thinking of a @constructor tag to differentiate
>> comments about to instantiate the class from the workings of the class
>> itself.
> 
> Just wondering what you mean about class. Isn't JavaScript a
> prototype based language. There is no classes (yet, we have to wait JS 
> 2.0).

As far as I understand, every arbitrary function can act as a 
"constructor". It is just a function setting up the slots of an object 
created using new.

I think that something like @constructor is required in order to tag the 
semantics of a function. Or has anyone an idea how to safely deduce this 
from the code? I think that locking for new operators and then using the 
given constructors could help only in those cases where we do not only 
have source code of a library but also of its use.

-- Harald

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