2008/8/25 Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Aug 25, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote:
I've been quiet on these threads for a long time but i just wanted to
emphasize Kris's point. Whatever we decide to desugar the class syntax into
I think it is very important to get this right. We need
2008/8/26 Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sam and I, not going in circles (much), agree that typeof 3m should
be object, and that we add hardwired operator support for such
Decimal objects.
This would be very similar to QName and Namespace from E4X. typeof
returns object for both but there is
http://code.intertwingly.net/demo/es-decimal/
user: brendan, password: cowlishaw
Instructions should be relatively self evident. Enter a bunch of
expressions, one per line. Click submit. See results. Alter
expressions. Repeat.
Implementation notes:
This simply is a CGI that shells out
I noticed a little idiom supported by classes-as-values:
(new (class() { ... }))
This essentially builds an object whose properties can be computed in an
arbitrary statement context-- with loops or what have you. You might
call this a dynamic singleton pattern; a throwaway factory. It's
On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Dave Herman wrote:
I noticed a little idiom supported by classes-as-values:
(new (class() { ... }))
This essentially builds an object whose properties can be computed
in an
arbitrary statement context-- with loops or what have you. You might
call this a
On Aug 26, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Dave Herman wrote:
Does not say class, seems to save only a few chars (you
over-parenthesize new ;-). Wait for demand?
It's not about saving chars so much as introducing a new (lightweight)
semantic concept: an object initializer that is a block rather than a
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