I'm kind of on the fence about it. `let result = matrix1.multiply(matrix2)` works for graphics, but `var result = matrix1 * matrix2` could be nice.
Now that I think about it, I think I'll fall over onto the +1 side of the fence, because one of the things I love about JavaScript is how flexible it is as a language, and this adds to that flexibility that developers have in choosing how they write code. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Coroutines <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Bradley Meck <[email protected]> wrote: >> Who would think not knowing what `a+b` could do as a pitfall? /s >> >> I am not a big fan of overloading though, since it presents more mental >> complexity as they map to functions without looking like function calls. > > From the Wikipedia page on ecmascript it seemed like operator > overloading was already a for-sure planned feature of ES7, just not > fleshed out in a spec. I personally do love operator overloading - I > am used to it from Lua and Python and I think it can be quite nice. > Especially for making PEG combinator stuff: > > term = Any(1) // any 1 character > whitespace = Range(CharSet(' \t'), 1, Infinity) // space or tab, > repeated 1 or more times > indented_term = whitespace + term // will match: ' x' > > result = indented_term.parse(' text...') > > Okay this is a bad example. But when you're building a grammar > description from objects it can be quite fun to make use of operator > overloading for a much cleaner description - somewhat like a > domain-specific language (DSL) within JS. LPeg in Lua and PyPeg in > Python make this rather pleasant. > > Anyway, I suspect it won't matter what syntactic features Javascript > gains once WebAssembly gets adopted. We already have the fundamentals > like inheritance in place so that any language can compile to a > WebAssembly AST and run as one would expect. > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
