doc: replace util.inherits() with es6 classes extends
util.inherits() is probably long unloved. With full class support it would be worth thinking of slowly deprecating it as weakly suggested in https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4179 by @bnoordhuis
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Since this would strongly promote the class
keyword for the JS world we would need to think about whether we want to do this and in which form. Personally I am not a big fan of it in general - especially since es6 proposed style would have methods on a non 0 indentation level. So we could think about the following:
cc @nodejs/documentation
@jasnell
const EventEmitter = require('events')
class PureES6 extends EventEmitter {
constructor() {
super()
}
echo(val) {
console.log(val)
}
}
let es6 = new PureES6()
es6.echo('A Value')
class Mixed extends EventEmitter {
constructor() {
super()
}
_echo(val) {
console.log(val)
}
}
Mixed.prototype.echo = function echo (val) {
this._echo(val)
}
let mixed = new Mixed()
mixed.echo('A Value')