On Nov 1, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > On Nov 1, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Dmitry Soshnikov wrote: > >> The technique I showed of course initially is designed to be used with >> class-system; though, I think it can be adopted to class-free system as well. > > We're not going to delete and restore. That's a non-starter for performance > and observable mutation reasons.
the mutation is so wrong, and not just for performance reasons. Assume x is global constant reference to an obj and foo is a method of that object that does a super.foo call up through several levels of "superclass" foo methods. In that case the expression "x.foo()" when called from "somewhere else, such as from a top level expression", is going to do something different then what it does when called (either directly or indirectly) from a super invocation of one of the superclass foo methods. That can't be reasonable behavior. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
