[OpenLayers-Trac] [OpenLayers] #962: Check for existing prototypes on objects and don't clobber them

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#962: Check for existing prototypes on objects and don't clobber them
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  Reporter:  crschmidt  |       Owner:  euzuro     
      Type:  task       |      Status:  assigned   
  Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  2.6 Release
 Component:  general    |     Version:  2.4        
Resolution:             |    Keywords:             
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Comment (by tschaub):

 In case I wasn't descriptive enough in my comment above, I really think we
 should take an alternative tack.  Instead of adding sugar to the language,
 lets act like a library.

 Unfortunately, nobody else writes small libraries that we can import, so
 we're stuck reimplementing extra stuff we want.  As long as we are relying
 on functionality that the language doesn't give us, it belongs in our
 library - and in our namespace.  We don't want to make decisions based on
 any other names (like String.prototype.trim or Function.prototype.bind) -
 we only know about names that start with OpenLayers - because we clobbered
 whatever else someone else may have defined there.

 So, really, please consider moving away from these sugary sweet language
 extensions.  And I don't believe it all has to wait until 3.0.  I'd rather
 see OpenLayers.Function.bind in 2.6 instead of if(Function.prototype.bind)
 {OpenLayers.Console.error("yikes, I wanted to do that")}.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/962#comment:8>
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