On Jun 20, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: >> I was hypothesizing that Brendan's semantics would seldom be the programer's >> intent for person?.getName() . If an exception was acceptable, why wouldn't >> you just say: > > Because it's rare to have a maybe-method called on a maybe-object, based on > CoffeeScript experience and design. Please don't personalize this -- I wrote > the strawman to capture what CoffeeScript has user-tested. Any bugs are mine, > but they're also not (necessarily) intended.
nothing personal intended, just a sloppy way to refer to your strawman. > ... > Again, I do not see the point in gratuitously differing from CoffeeScript > without reason. One might argue that since we cannot use ?( as CS does, we > should make ?. soak up call TypeErrors. Could be, but I didn't propose > anything for call yet and this discussion seems worth beating into the ground > a bit more before I do :-). yes, that's what I was proposing. I think calls need to be part of the overall discussion for this feature area. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
