On 20 May 2011 15:42, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com> wrote:
> Modules aren't generative.
If you mean that you cannot create several objects from them, then
yes, but see my reply to Dave.
However, I was primarily wondering about static members, which don't
provide any generativity in that sense either.
/Andreas
> On May 20, 2011 7:58 AM, "Andreas Rossberg" <rossb...@google.com> wrote:
>> On 19 May 2011 16:05, David Herman <dher...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>> Yes, we've talked about this. One of the issues I don't know how to
>>> resolve is if we want to allow the specification of class properties aka
>>> statics, then those need *not* to be in the scope of the constructor
>>> arguments, which ends up with very strange scoping behavior:
>>>
>>> var x = "outer"
>>> class C(x) {
>>> static foo = x // "outer" -- whoa!
>>> }
>>>
>>> I'm not 100% up on the current thinking of the group that's been working
>>> on classes, and whether they are including statics in the design, but I
>>> think they are.
>>
>> Oh, it wasn't clear to me that we really want to have static members.
>> I may be biased here, but I always viewed static members as just a
>> poor man's substitute for a proper module system. Fortunately, it
>> looks like we will have a real one instead!
>>
>> To be honest, I'm a bit worried that there will be a _lot_ of semantic
>> redundancy in the end. After adding modules + classes + static members
>> (+ traits?), there would be at least three or four different,
>> complicated constructs that evaluate to some kind of object, with
>> significant functional overlap.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Andreas
>
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