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by JonnieCache 5074 days ago
I call that prototypical construction. The point is, it's hardly java.
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Neither classes nor inheritance are necessary for OOP. A good read on this topic: http://wcook.blogspot.de/2012/07/proposal-for-simplified-mod...

Btw, you can also do classes with JavaScript: http://mootools.net/docs/core/Class/Class

JavaScript's prototype-based OOP is a superset of class-based OOP.