On Jul 29, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote: > >>> I like Underscore (http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/). Should we >>> standardize it? Not yet. But it points in the right direction to avoid OOP >>> single-inheritance traps: functional programming, generic for all >>> containers functions. >> >> I love true generic functions (as in “multiple dispatch”) and think that >> they would be a good match for JS (not any time soon, but one can dream). I >> see generic functions as complementary to single dispatch (including >> prototypes). Reenskaug and Coplien [1] seem to agree. Generic functions are >> also great for working with data coming from web services (e.g. JSON). > > I did not mean multimethods ("generic functions" is a confusing term, since > it also means functions that work for parameters of any time
s/time/type Coffee time! /be > ; also "generic" suggests "generics", i.e. type parameters). > > ES4 had a proposal for multimethods but I doubt it will make a come-back. > Adding another dispatch mechanism to JS is a very hard sell. For dyadic > operators, double dispatch is enough. > > /be > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
