What your showing is ES3 OO sugar.

The problem I have is that the notion of a constructor function goes against prototypical OO.

In prototypical OO we just have objects and objects inherit from objects. there is no notion of a constructor function.

Also note that pd.make returns an object rather then a function.

It's simply a programming style I like, to think of my "class" object not as the constructor function but as the prototype object.

Not to mention that `x.prototype.foo = ...` is ugly.

    var Animal = {
        constructor: function () {
            this.legs = legs; 
        },
        speed: function () {
            return this.legs * 10;    
        }
    };
    
    var Dog = pd.make(Animal, {
        constructor: function (name) {
            Animal.constructor.call(this, 4);
            this.name = name;
        },
        speed: function () {
            return Animal.speed.call(this) * 2;    
        }
    });