On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > So, we need the well-championed, thought-through, pattern-matching proposal > first. It won't take too long, I bet, and in any event you are *not* going > to get browsers implementing catch-if quickly -- I am 100% sure of this, > based on long experience.
And amen to that. Benjamin, adding one language feature for every reasonable use case presented on es-discuss sounds like a great way to get a language full of incoherent hacks in a hurry. That is, I don't think you'd like the result you're asking for, if you just directly extrapolate that to everyone else's JS pain point that can be addressed with one tiny leetle waffer-thin bit of syntax. A platform can have a hundred thousand APIs. A programming language can't have a hundred thousand features. The complexity budget is finite. We've got to add language features that work in multiple syntactic contexts and support multiple use cases. -j _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
