On Dec 28, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> I get nervous when speculations about future adoption ratios or incentives > for developers are made without enough data or table-stakes ante'ing (bolded > tripled *biggest* doesn't count as money!). OK, I've made that same argument recently, I'll take it. I guess what I can retain of that argument is that *if* modules succeed, then the implicit opt-in will have bought us little. But even if *not*, it's not worth proliferating the number of cases that are implicitly strict. Modules are a good place to implicitly opt in to strict mode, because they're a coarse-grained program structuring feature. Classes are finer-grained, especially dynamic classes like in ES6. Meanwhile we don't *need* the world to use strict. Modules will reinforce strictness on a large scale; classes provide much less reinforcement, and more complexity. Not worth it. Dave _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
