Re: death to style guidelines

2010-09-08 Thread Irakli Gozalishvili
I do understand that just switching a skin is no go, but having something like: use clean; Could be a very good compromise. Regarding my phrase on coffee: I did not meant to heart anybody's feelings regarding coffee script. I do like the project myself but I don't think it production ready.

Re: death to style guidelines

2010-09-02 Thread Dmitry A. Soshnikov
On 02.09.2010 2:44, Mike Samuel wrote: 2010/9/1 Irakli Gozalishvilirfo...@gmail.com: I have not seen the post before, but it perfectly expresses my concerns. I still do think though that if breaking backwards compatibility is on the table solving syntactic noise issue is not such a bad idea

Re: death to style guidelines

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Samuel
2010/9/1 Irakli Gozalishvili rfo...@gmail.com: I have not seen the post before, but it perfectly expresses my concerns. I still do think though that if breaking backwards compatibility is on the table solving syntactic noise issue is not such a bad idea even if it means changing a skin it

Re: death to style guidelines

2010-09-01 Thread Brendan Eich
On Sep 1, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Irakli Gozalishvili wrote: I have not seen the post before, but it perfectly expresses my concerns. Here is an older one, from Ken Arnold in 2004, along the very same lines: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=74230 I still do think though that if

death to style guidelines

2010-08-27 Thread Irakli Gozalishvili
Hi, Please don't be too aggressive in replies, I know it's too ambitious may not lead to anything, but I still want to give it a try and suggest to: Employ some of the decisions that being made with coffee script python in order to over all the wars regarding: 2 space vs 4 space vs tabs, where

Re: death to style guidelines

2010-08-27 Thread Dmitry A. Soshnikov
On 27.08.2010 14:15, Irakli Gozalishvili wrote: Hi, Please don't be too aggressive in replies, I know it's too ambitious may not lead to anything, but I still want to give it a try and suggest to: Employ some of the decisions that being made with coffee script python in order to over

Re: death to style guidelines

2010-08-27 Thread Brendan Eich
It's not practical to change the skin of JS this radically, but OTOH browser JS VMs are getting so fast that it *is* practical to compile CoffeeScript and other nearby source languages to JS. Heck, even Python - JS in the browser is looking good, ignoring the standard library issue