>> I’m curious: Is it likely that such libraries will get written by the >> community? This domain does not seem to enjoy much interest. (I would >> volunteer, but have neither the necessary expertise/experience nor the time.) > > Well, If nobody else creates such a library, I will.
+ Number.MAX_VALUE This has the potential to be one of the most important parts of ECMAScript.next (whether as part of ECMA-262 or not). > I think up to now, JS has not been particularly hospitable to collection > libraries, but this will be different in ES.next. I might be wrong about this, but: people reinvent different kinds of wheels in different programming languages. And collections don’t seem to appeal to the JS community. >> Can we profit from prior work? The following comes to mind: >> >> - “User-extensible sequences in Common Lisp”, Christophe Rhodes >> http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01cr/papers/ilc2007/sequences-20070301.pdf >> >> - Programming languages with collection APIs (among many others): Smalltalk, >> Java > > See my experiments with Smalltalk-80 collections in ES.next at > https://github.com/allenwb/ESnext-experiments . However, if I was actually > going to use Smalltalk collections as a model I would start with the ANSI > Smalltalk collection specification > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/uploads/172/standard_v1_9-indexed.pdf section > 5.7 Makes sense. There might be some additional insights in what the Lispers are doing. This is more of a hunch than actual knowledge of mine – I simply like their way of thinking about object-orientation. -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com
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