Re: An extend operator is a natural companion to |

2011-07-20 Thread Axel Rauschmayer
My opinion can be summarized as follows: The operator is really useful, we need it or at least its functionality (alternatively, as a method). I suspect that the patterns are better supported via class literals that hides the details via sugaring, but they elegantly illustrate why the operator

Re: An extend operator is a natural companion to |

2011-07-20 Thread Axel Rauschmayer
From: Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com Date: July 19, 2011 21:16:29 GMT+02:00 To: Luke Hoban lu...@microsoft.com Cc: es-discuss@mozilla.org es-discuss@mozilla.org Subject: Re: An extend operator is a natural companion to | On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Luke Hoban wrote: The arguments

Re: An extend operator is a natural companion to |

2011-07-20 Thread Axel Rauschmayer
From: Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com Date: July 19, 2011 18:59:04 GMT+02:00 To: Sean Eagan seaneag...@gmail.com Cc: es-discuss es-discuss@mozilla.org Subject: Re: An extend operator is a natural companion to | owns is ambiguous -- could still delegate. Can't use extends, the direction

Re: Comments on internationalization API

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Davis ☕
I have comments on some of these. Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:29, Norbert Lindenberg ecmascr...@norbertlindenberg.com wrote: Hi all, I'm sorry for not having been able to contribute to the internationalization API earlier. I finally have reviewed

Re: Feedback on Binary Data updates

2011-07-20 Thread David Herman
Hi Luke, The idea is definitely to subsume typed arrays as completely as possible. * Array types of fixed length The current design fixes the length of an ArrayType instance as part of the ArrayType definition, instead of as a parameter to the resulting constructor. I'm not sure I