I’m sympathetic to both sides of this argument. How would you handle things?
On Dec 29, 2012, at 14:47 , Andreas Rossberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't replied to this thread yet, because I feel that I already > made all the same arguments repeatedly to no avail. ;) However, let > me reiterate one particular observation, which is that IMHO much of > the discussion (and decision making) around 1JS, modes, and opt-ins is > just mistargeted. > > Namely, it is primarily based on the expectations and needs of > _current_ users. Users that are aware of what's ES3 or 5 and who are > about to investigate what's new in ES6. To those users, design choices > like making new constructs opt into strict mode by default will not > seem a big deal, even natural. > > But that group will be irrelevant after a relatively short time of transition! > > ES6+ will stay much longer (at least that's what we are working for). > Consequently, what should take precedence are the expectations and > needs of _future_ users of ES. Those who will come to ES6+ without > knowing nor caring about the colorful history of its earlier versions. > For them, having various features locally change the semantics of > unrelated constructs will be surprising at best. It means having to > remember a seemingly random set of rules for what semantics is active > where. > > The more such rules there are, and the more fine-grained they are, the > less readable code becomes, and the more error-prone programming and, > particularly, refactoring will be -- not just for the current > generation of ES programmers, but for all generations to come. IMHO, > that is the wrong trade-off entirely. > > /Andreas > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [email protected] home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com
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