Alex, That is not what I wrote at all because I didn't write the "it could be better".
The analogy that Nathan was making does not apply to JavaScript. He wrote that C# delegates were not popular in C# 2.0. Functions are already popular in JavaScript. Peter On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Alex Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sorry, this this argument is entirely circular: > > - we have something that works > - it could be better > - but it works, so we don't need anything better > > ? > > On May 21, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Peter Michaux wrote: > >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Nathan Stott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Having worked a lot with C#, my experience was that very very few >>> people used the C# 2.0 delegate syntax and now a large portion of the >>> community learned and uses the C# 3.0 syntax. Syntax matters. >> >> JavaScript functions have not suffered neglect due to the length of >> their syntax. Function expressions are already wildly popular in >> JavaScript. So this C# data does not really support the necessity for >> change in JavaScript. > > -- > Alex Russell > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] BE03 E88D EABB 2116 CC49 8259 CF78 E242 59C3 9723 > > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
