On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Dave Herman wrote:
> I noticed a little idiom supported by classes-as-values:
>
> (new (class() { ... }))
>
> This essentially builds an object whose properties can be computed
> in an
> arbitrary statement context-- with loops or what have you. You might
> call this a "dynamic singleton" pattern; a throwaway factory. It's
> not a
> global singleton like in Java; it's just an ordinary expression so it
> might be called by a function or whatever.
Probably everyone involved favors first-class classes -- first-class
meaning classes as values (not only as named defining forms),
nestable. I hoped so in reply to Peter yesterday.
> Worth a little sugar? E.g.:
>
> object { ... } ~=~ (new (class() { ... }))
Does not say class, seems to save only a few chars (you over-
parenthesize new ;-). Wait for demand?
> or maybe to conserve keywords (a bit backwards-incompatible):
>
> new { ... } ~=~ (new (class() { ... }))
This is not incompatible at all, since an object initialiser has no
[[Construct]] in ES3, so cannot be the operand of new.
/be
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