Eric Miller

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• Extending JavaScript Arrays While Keeping Native Bracket-Notation Functionality

  Posted on Aug 6, 2014 at 5:34 PM

  I'll answer myself--looks like concat works property against the Nadel Array Extension method :) function concatWorks(x) { return [].concat(x)[0] !== x; } myCollection = new Collection(); console.log(concatWorks(myCollection)); // true... read more »

• Extending JavaScript Arrays While Keeping Native Bracket-Notation Functionality

  Posted on Aug 6, 2014 at 5:19 PM

  @Ben, Have you run this test against it? function isArray(x) { return [].concat(x)[0] !== x; } I pulled it from the below StackOverflow question. Concat works against and internal and maybe unsettable property so I think it may be impossible to actually extend an array perfectly using any met... read more »

• Extending JavaScript Arrays While Keeping Native Bracket-Notation Functionality

  Posted on Aug 6, 2014 at 5:07 PM

  @Gordon, Check out Backbone's extend implementation. You should be able to write both the array extension and an extend method on your base Collection class. http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html#section-206 I am trying to translate Ben's code into this use case now.... read more »

• Extending JavaScript Arrays While Keeping Native Bracket-Notation Functionality

  Posted on Aug 6, 2014 at 5:03 PM

  I'm here to figure out how to fix the .concat method. As a note, @BobGray's method works, but only in one direction. Here's what I mean: If you use this to fix concat: Catalog.prototype.concat = function () { return Array.prototype.concat.apply( this.slice(), arguments ); }; Then th... read more »