On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> JS is used by many more programmers, amateur and pro, than C. It has to have > better human factors than C. That goes against being a good code generator > target language. I think that may not be true in all cases. methodMissing is an example where both groups could benefit. Tail calls is another feature I think benefit both especially as interest in functional languages is rising strongly. When weighing the pros and cons of a proposed feature, knowing that putting "helps compilers" in the pros column is considered acceptable is important. Does "helps compilers" carry any weight at all with the committee? If it does then there is no need for anyone to dance around it for fear of being called a distractor or disruptively off topic. They can just say it as part of an acceptable discussion. Peter _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
