On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > A Perl enthusiast who's written three blog posts in two years says he > doesn't like a new language and we should pay attention because...? > Anyway, even if I focus on the message and not the messenger, I can't say I > see a lot of value in this post, why did you find it noticeable?
Don't know why, but I found how you managed to turn an admission of an ad hom into an insult rather amusing. :) As for the post, I found the slant on the "feable type system" a good spin on it. It does sound like they are encouraging more of a "lint based" approach to typing. I found the criticism of where you could have done "if (foo) foo.bar()" before but now you can't because only false is false, is a valid annoyance. I'll miss that idiom from javascript. If he is correct about 2 + "2" being an exception whereas "2" + 2 being concatenation, that is annoying. (I recall the pain this caused when + was added to List in Scala.) I agree that the complaint about an exception is hollow, if you don't know where it is used. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
