I solved it the same way :)

You absolutely should.

Yay! I love a good functional programing polyglot! We could use a little more support.

@cu6upb like monking said, the real problem is that your editing something that's not yours (the global string object) Which means that if somone imports your library it would at worst break their code because you've changed the way the string behaves.

It is ok however to use prototypal inheritance to make your own sub-objects and those you can edit to your hearts desire. I've never tried to do it with a built in type (besides Object) but I bet you can.

By editing a built-in prototype, you're assuming that by the time you need it, nobody else has done the same thing that you just did (but perhaps they figured "capitallize" would output 'nIfTy'). You're opening your code to error, or introducing error into someone else's code.

Hi, I don't know a lot of about javascript but why adding to String's prototype is bad practice? Are you talking about creating new constructor instead of using string prototype? Thank you)

I agree with the above comments but accidently clicked the 'Best practices' button...doh!

Clever although I would say adding onto String's prototype is bad practice.