On Jan 5, 2012, at 8:08 AM, François REMY wrote: > >> > >> It’s a shame that we are really close in JavaScript, with the ECMA-262 > >> specification using references. > >> > > As things are going, things are not going to change. The strong desire to > avoid any behavior breakingchange between ES5 and ES6 actually makes it > impossible to fix a lot of issues. I’m starting to think Google may be right > to start over a new language,
Lots of new languages these days -- a good thing. Starting a language is one thing. Getting adoption is another matter. > the comitee is too conservative about ES. > > But, I agree, it’s a shame. What *exactly* would you do here? Making methods auto-bind on extraction, with memoization? Please be concrete and specific. I do not believe (Axel) that the spec's Reference internal type is helpful as an externally-visible part of the language in any of this. /be
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