Well, it’s pretty easy to rig up yourself. Why further pollute the prototypes?
Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(key) {
var value = obj[key];
});
I think a big reason is that the powers that be want to avoid adding built in properties to Object
. Object
s are the building blocks of everything in Javascript, but are also the generic key/value store in the language. Adding new properties to Object
would conflict with property names that your Javascript program might want to use. So adding built in names to Object
is done with extreme caution.
Array is indexed by integers, so it doesn’t have this issue.
This is also why we have Object.keys(obj)
instead of simply obj.keys
. Pollute the Object
constructor as that it typically not a big deal, but leave instances alone.