Re: The "gathering developer feedback" utopia.

+1 Ideas should be judged on their merit. -Terence Bandoian On 10/10/2018 5:12 AM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: Daniel Ehrenberg wrote [1] the following: > I'd recommend starting with making a library which does this, and gathering broad developer feedback, before proposing for

Re: Function composition vs pipeline

proposed. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 01:53 Terence M. Bandoian <tere...@tmbsw.com <mailto:tere...@tmbsw.com>> wrote: That's very true. However, every new feature is an added cost to the developer that can't be wished away with a linter. -Terence Bandoian On 3/20/

Re: Re: Function composition vs pipeline

. On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Terence M. Bandoian <tere...@tmbsw.com <mailto:tere...@tmbsw.com>> wrote: When "features" are added to the language, developers have to learn them. Either that or risk being relegated to second class status. That means more

Re: Function composition vs pipeline

capable of independently arguing about and evolving standard convenience modules. Although syntactic sugar is low on the list, it is still costly and best avoided when there's no compelling need. "Just use a linter" is not a panacea. On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Terenc

Re: Function composition vs pipeline

In my opinion, one of the more significant advances in the C programming language was the increase in the maximum length of identifiers. To me, this translates to "less cryptic is better". -Terence Bandoian On 3/11/2018 1:09 AM, Peter Jaszkowiak wrote: Personally, I'd push my subordinates

Re: Proposal to add symbol: "hasInstanceStrict"

See Mike Samuel's notes below. TC39 appears to have different goal. -Terence Bandoian On 2/21/2018 7:36 PM, Terence M. Bandoian wrote: Thanks for the clarification. -Terence Bandoian On 2/20/2018 7:56 AM, Mike Samuel wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:37 AM, T.J. Crowder <tj.c

Re: Re: Proposal to add symbol: "hasInstanceStrict"

Thanks for the clarification. -Terence Bandoian On 2/20/2018 7:56 AM, Mike Samuel wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:37 AM, T.J. Crowder <tj.crow...@farsightsoftware.com <mailto:tj.crow...@farsightsoftware.com>> wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Terence M. Bandoi

Re: Proposal to add symbol: "hasInstanceStrict"

Wasn't JavaScript originally designed for use in the Netscape browser? Maybe it's more correct to say that it was originally designed for use in web browsers but has been and is being adapted for other purposes. -Terence Bandoian On 2/20/2018 2:47 AM, T.J. Crowder wrote: On Tue, Feb 20,

Re: javascript vision thing

I appreciate hearing Kai's point of view and don't think he should be silenced. -Terence Bandoian On 12/17/2017 2:03 PM, T.J. Crowder wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Jordan Harband > wrote: > > Adding features in *no way* sacrifices

Re: Question of the Day: What about all this asynchrony?

Thank you for this, Jeremy. -Terence On 11/8/2017 10:00 AM, Jeremy Martin wrote: Michael, You are not alone in your frustrations. Many of your points are valid, have been voiced before, and will no doubt be voiced again. No one on here is unsympathetic to this, and many members of TC39, as