Explain getting, setting and prototype chians

[adamzerner]

It may be useful to explain that when you set you don't look up the prototype chain and when you get you do look up the chain.

But that setting involves getting to the left of the last dot. Ie.

ChildScope.myObject.aNumber involves getting what's to the left of the last dot (which allows you to look up the chain), and then sets to the result.

[caitp]

PRs welcome!

[adamzerner]

I wrote up this explanation (with my classmates in mind, but it should be useful to most people learning Angular).

[caitp]

looks good --- it would make a great blog post, but for the core docs it might need to be trimmed down a bit. @petebacondarwin wdyt?

[adamzerner]

@caitp Thanks! I'm a student and not too familiar with the way things work. This explanation helped a bunch of my classmates so I just figured it would help other beginners reading that Understanding Scopes article.

I'll write it up into a blog post when I get a chance. As for how it'd fit into the docs, I don't really know so I'll just comment when I write it up and let you guys decide what to do with it :)

[adamzerner]

I did a write-up: http://adamzerner.github.io/articles/scope_inheritance/.

[mfbx9da4]

I like the explanation, I think it would be useful in the docs.

[rcollette]

Nice.