On 2011-03-29, at 14:19, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > I'll leave it to reader to weigh the above pros and cons. But I do have a > closing statement: > > There is a decades long disagreement among designers/users of function and > object-oriented languages. OO proponents think there is something special > about the "receiver" of a method call and that "self-calls" have special > significance.
If I had a vote, it would be for a way to explicitly name the `-1th` argument to a function. And I would wish for it to be available in all function forms, defaulting to using the legacy name `this`, if not otherwise specified. I believe it not only addresses the issue in this thread, but leaves the way open for generic functions. [As a user, I infer I fall into your "functional proponent" camp, but I claim to also be an o-o proponent. I just find it much easier to think in generic functions and consider the "distinguished receiver" of message passing as being a degenerate case of that, which has a layer of syntactic sugar to let you express foo(a, b, c) as a.foo(b, c), if you like to think the other way.] _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
