On 14 November 2012 18:41, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Either way, Scala's > unfortunate choice clearly violates this history in a confusing manner, so > I'd classify it as #4. Let's not repeat Scala's mistake.
Just to reiterate, it's not just Scala, but more importantly also C++, Java (to some extent), and several less mainstream languages. That is, this use of terminology has quite a bit of history of its own, dating back almost as far as E (and having developed more or less independently). /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss

