On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com>wrote:
> > On Oct 15, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Russell Leggett wrote: > > > > > If we didn't have :: (which we don't now), I think people will continue > to simply use functions like what underscore does. Personally, I'm ok with > that. If I want to have unscoped extensions and live with the consequences > - I will be happy to use symbols. If I want to make a polyfill, I'll just > do it the same way we've been doing it. But, as much as Allen seems to > accuse me of being an FP guy, I still want to have a thing which feels like > a method to be on the right so I find that using :: (if it existed) would > be a nice compromise. > > Hey, it was a general rant and not specifically directed at you or anybody > else. > > Sure, no offense taken, I just don't put myself in that camp. Even the use of |this| I think is justified as not an FP abuse, I just haven't gotten a chance to flesh out my reasoning yet. Without elaborating too much, (sorry, no time right now), I basically envision the blend of clojure protocols and javascript as basically external mixins. Not just a single function, but potentially a set, and using the |this| for single dispatch the way clojure protocols use the first arg. - Russ
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