Proposals always have a cost. Thus, every proposal *always* must justify why it's useful, or else it's never going to be worth making a change to the language.
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:25 PM, kdex <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, if we really want to delve into linguistics, it's more the opposite > of > what you're describing: Tons of languages have grammatical features that > make > English one of the most nondescriptive and ambiguous languages out there: > Grammatical cases and gender, a wider variety of tenses, moods, > grammatical > numbers far beyond just singular and plural… > > Anyway, back to the point: ES is a language where primarily due to > browsers, > you are often constrained to a certain syntax. It's hence often preferable > if > certain features can be introduced without introducing new syntax, or else > you're forcing transpilers upon developers*, or you're breaking websites > whose > developers didn't even realize that older browsers can't parse the syntax > for > feature X. It might take years before you can safely assume that the > majority > of browsers supports X. > > Therefore, while we do appreciate all kinds of ideas, at the very least > you > should explain why the current way to achieve the very same thing is > inferior > to your proposed solution and how introducing a new syntax might be > justifiable. > > * If the feature can even be transpiled. For lack of a better example: You > can > not really transpile ES2015's `Proxy` to ES5 in a reasonable way. > > On Saturday, May 12, 2018 7:58:12 AM CEST Abdul Shabazz wrote: > > And, as an aside, i take umbrage with contributors whom require us to > > explain why a suggestion or a proposal is useful: Just because something > > can be done one way -- does not mean its the only way it should be done, > if > > our goal in javascript is flexibility/versatility: The english language > is > > complex because there are so many synonyms for the same word. But this is > > also why our language is the most concrete expressive; whereas languages > > like latin spanish or italian use the same word to express many things > but > > the listener must interpret the speaker's tone in order to derive correct > > meaning. English may be dying language but it is the language of the > > machine. > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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