On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:45 AM, David Griffiths <[email protected]> wrote: > - they overload the space character, making it mean something different in > only a small fraction of cases. > [...] > > The first point is major, in my opinion. If the goal is to have an argument > list opener that doesn't require an explicit close, then some other > character(s) would be a better solution than forcing people to read possible > double-meanings into every space they see. > > U+0020 is consistently high up in the top 5 most-repeated characters in a > JavaScript program, so overloading its meaning for a minor cosmetic effect is > not justifiable IMO.
Could you clarify this objection? As I understand it, even with paren-free call syntax, spaces would still have just one purpose: to separate tokens. Many, many languages (including Perl, Ruby, VB, Scala, Smalltalk, Logo, and of course all the ML-like languages, including Haskell and F#) do without parentheses for calls in some circumstances at least. Do you use any of these languages? I quite like some of them. -j _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
