Definition & Meaning | English word PROTOTYPE-BASED

Definitions of PROTOTYPE-BASED

1. (programming) making inheritance possible by cloning objects instead of instantiating them from classes

Examples of Using PROTOTYPE-BASED in a Sentence

• Self began as a dialect of Smalltalk, being dynamically typed and using just-in-time compilation (JIT) with the prototype-based approach to objects: it was first used as an experimental test system for language design in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Text Adventure Development System (TADS) is a prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games.
• Flash Player 5: Included in the first version of ActionScript, it used prototype-based programming based on ECMAScript, and allowed full procedural programming and object-oriented programming.
• Class-based programming, or more commonly class-orientation, is a style of object-oriented programming (OOP) in which inheritance occurs via defining classes of objects, instead of inheritance occurring via the objects alone (compare prototype-based programming).
• Some classify prototype-based programming as object-based even though it supports inheritance and subtyping albeit not via a class concept.

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