2010/4/19 Brendan Eich <[email protected]>: > On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Peter van der Zee wrote: > >> Basically, this means we cannot introduce new language constructs or >> syntax because older implementations will trip over the code with no way to >> recover. Furthermore, for various reasons it seems "feature detection" is >> favored over version detection. > > When you want the new syntax, though, you're going to have to use opt-in > versioning (see RFC4329).
Let's not go there. The names proposal seems to be basically ephemeron tables without the special GC semantics. I'm a great fan of coupling proposals. Putting a dozen uncoupled proposals into Harmony looks like a recipe for a hodge-podge language. Finding powerful abstractions that solve several problems at once (in this case weak hashes and private variables) feels much nicer. -- Erik Corry _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
