On 2007-11-14, at 00:35 EST, Brendan Eich wrote:
> At this point cue Alex Russell to argue for something I proposed
> earlier, but didn't push hard enough: optional method bodies for
> interfaces, for generic programming and default implementation code-
> sharing.
Actually, I think that was me.
On 2007-11-14, at 00:14 EST, Yuh-Ruey Chen wrote:
> Oh come on :) I was referring to the syntax of the class system, which
> is undoubtedly Java-esque. Lot of Java haters in the functional (no
> 1st-class functions!) and scripting (too verbose!) programming crowd.
> Pretty much everyone's first im
Brendan Eich wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007, at 1:56 PM, YR Chen wrote:
>
> > Personally, I'm still mixed on the introduction of the whole
> > nominal type system with classes and whatnot. I'm very sympathetic
> > to views that ES4 should concentrate on ES3's weak points. At
> > times, I feel that
[Dude, overciting kills electric trees -- cut more of my deathless
prose when replying, please! :-)]
On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Yuh-Ruey Chen wrote:
> 3) Completely abandoning ES3 in favor of another language(s). I'm
> definitely not in favor for this, but this has been a very common
> th
> Could the Scheme aspect of ES be strengthened? Tail recursion and let
> statements seem like good additions. What about macros? Please!
I can speak to the topic of macros. The group has been open to the
possibility of macros for a future version of ES, but not Edition 4.
There are not very man
On Nov 12, 2007, at 1:56 PM, YR Chen wrote:
> Personally, I'm still mixed on the introduction of the whole
> nominal type system with classes and whatnot. I'm very sympathetic
> to views that ES4 should concentrate on ES3's weak points. At
> times, I feel that ES3 is just too "alien" a base
On Nov 12, 2007 3:56 PM, YR Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm very sympathetic to views that ES4 should concentrate on ES3's weak
> points.
Oops, I meant that strong points, not weak points.
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Personally, I'm still mixed on the introduction of the whole nominal type
system with classes and whatnot. I'm very sympathetic to views that ES4
should concentrate on ES3's weak points. At times, I feel that ES3 is just
too "alien" a base to build the "programming in the large" features that ES4
a
I've been reading the blogs and fuss over the the ES4 proposal. It
seems to me that if ES3 was so horribly inadequate then big changes to
the language would be welcomed unanimously. It must be that ES3 is
sufficient to get by well enough that we have the luxury to argue
about the worth of the propo
