From: "David Teller" wrote: > I concur with that. In order to maintain readability, most optimizations > should happen behind-the-scene i.e. by using either type inference (or > something more complicated but of the same kind) or type-feedback.
I totally agree with this; I wouldn't even have brought up the topic of static-typing, if it weren't for current state-of-the-art in type inference. And type-inference is a key part in what has me realize that what I want can be achieved in the authoring tools. If I want to insure that what is sent to a browser is guaranteed to run within some spec [on devices that are in cooperation on this goal], then all I need [with regards to the topic of dynamic/static typing] is that the language does have an adequate type system; tools can add type annotations (and alert authors to other issues), and the devices can take advantage of that information. Other authors and other devices can do whatever they do; I don't need to care any more. I am much more comfortable knowing that these results are not dependent on the cutting-edge of dynamic language performance. The whole topic has become a non-issue in my mind now -- I will examine what has been said so far about the type system proposed for ES4. ~TMSteve _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
