On 1 March 2012 19:34, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote:
> What do you think? Do you like -> better than <| ? Is it ok to not have > it available for functions? > I am always reticent to re-use lexical features of one language when implementing in another with wildly different semantics. Like it or not, programmers see JavaScript as a C-like language where -> generally means 'accessor', as in C++. One could make the point that they should read the fine manual, but var scope is still a regular source of confusion: the vast majority of programmers just don't read anything more detailed than snippets on stackoverflow. I think an entirely new symbol will force them to read about the functionality and keep them from guessing about what it does. Wes -- Wesley W. Garland Director, Product Development PageMail, Inc. +1 613 542 2787 x 102
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