On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Andreas Rossberg <rossb...@google.com> wrote:
> > Arguably, the _syntactic_ complexity is not huge. It is almost benign, > compared to the _semantic_ complexity. Agreed. I have a bit of a problem articulating my thoughts clearly through this medium being new. The problem with introducing additional syntax to have scoped extension methods to the language is mostly the semantics scoped methods introduce by introducing the extra type of scope and not the extra rule in the language grammar. Even the syntax on its own sounds like a huge deal though, it's one more thing to teach every programmer learning the language JavaScript and an extra bit of cognitive overload. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Andreas Rossberg <rossb...@google.com>wrote: > On 14 October 2013 22:10, Benjamin (Inglor) Gruenbaum <ing...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> But there were design issues too. ... user confusion or complexity > remains > >> an objection. > > > > Yes! This is the thing that bothers me most right now about scoped > extension > > methods. Introducing additional syntax to the language seems like a > _huge_ > > objection to me, the fact that it's another thing to teach programmers > and > > another thing to keep in mind when figuring out scopes when reading new > code > > is a big deal in my opinion. > > Arguably, the _syntactic_ complexity is not huge. It is almost benign, > compared to the _semantic_ complexity. > > /Andreas >
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