Comment by Raynos

super is a nightmare to emulate and get "right". It has a bunch of weird edge cases you don't really want to think about.

I promote code like

    var Cat = Object.make(Animal, {
      constructor: function() {
        Animal.constructor.apply(this, arguments);
        ...
      },
      walk: function() {
        Animal.walk.apply(this, arguments);
        ...
      }
    });

Now compare:

- Animal.walk.apply(this, arguments);

- this.super.apply(this, arguments);

- this.super.walk.apply(this, arguments);

Using super doesn't fix verbosity, it only fixes hard coupling of Child class name to Super class name.

For the complexities, edge cases and performance penalties a super implementation gives, it's simply not worth fixing this hard coupling.

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