On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Max Goldstein <maxgoldste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Respectfully, the discussions around components keep happening because > people start them. Asking "how do I have stateful components with > closure/nesting" falls prey to the XY problem, and also misses a lot of the > philosophy of language design that Evan has talked about, most recently in > his elm-conf keynote <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSjbTC-hvqQ>. To > paraphrase, Elm is a young language and we're more concerned with doing > things right for the future than making a good language today. Another key > quote from his status updates: *choose not to block*. Going around and > demanding new language features that fit your style of code is not helpful. > FWIW, I appreciate Peter's questions, and I don't interpret "What am I missing?" and "Why not have...?" as demands. I like Evan's approach to language change and anticipate it will lead to a better Elm. As we gather the batch of problems that will lead to insight, I think the user stories and context around them are also important. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
