On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Eduardo Cavazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're thinking of responding to this, please be more creative than "I > don't like it". I'm only interested in responses which contain even better > designs. I don't think there will be any.
My response is "I don't like it", but not for the reasons you expect. I'm certainly not opposed to the idea of making word names more consistent, I don't think the bang is a big problem either, but I'd like to give language changes a rest for a few months while I concentrate on bug fixes, performance, and the web framework. We can revisit this issue later, but I'd like to minimize the number of language changes before the end of the year. Here is my current list and tentative time frame: - remove delegation - end of July - move multi-methods into the core - August perhaps - remove old-style slots - September - remove old-style methods - September I'm looking forward to improving the compiler more than doing any of the above, actually. In my opinion, having a fast implementation with good libraries is (slightly) more important than making the language consistent. I'd like to do both, and eventually I will, but in the short term I have to prioritize. I'd also like to get started on native threading as soon as I realistically can; it's a pretty sad state of affairs if the only dynamic languages which get native threading right are those that run on the JVM... Slava ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
