On May 31, 2012, at 10:26 PM, David Herman wrote:
It's become clear to me that mustache syntax is not well motivated. As a
simple update for objects, there's little it can do that Object.extend
couldn't do.
Probably not surprisingly, I strongly disagree.
First, WRT motivation. It's
On May 31, 2012, at 10:57 PM, Luke Hoban wrote:
On May 31, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
On May 31, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Herby Vojčík wrote:
Hello,
reacting to super only in classes, I'd like to propose widening it just a
little bit:
1. Allow super in every concise
On 1 June 2012 03:23, David Herman dher...@mozilla.com wrote:
There is *no* mixing of scope and object lookup in the cascade proposal.
None at all.
You're talking the technical details. I'm talking appearance and
expectation in the eyes of developers.
Just please stop saying that it's like
On 1 June 2012 06:05, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.org wrote:
Brendan Eich wrote:
you're just rehashing a concern based on appearances
which (I want to be clear; sorry for harshing on the 'with' point) is a
valid concern. We should discuss it directly, no 'with'-semantics mixed in.
/be
No, you are not alone.
Mustache and cascade are interesting but maybe not extremely, extremely
usefull.
Then as people have tried since years, I did write too a 'with'-like
proposal in strict mode, I already sent it some time ago and got 0
feedback, maybe I did not present it the right way,
-Original Message-
From: es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org [mailto:es-discuss-
boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Allen Wirfs-Brock
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 04:05
We haven't eliminated the ability to define object literals that inherit
from objects other than Object.prototype. We
Hi Allen,
I agree with your sentiments on the usefulness of mustache with respect to
extending an object, but I think the point that brings it down is the
fact that it will confuse developers with the put/define distinction. It
just looks too much like batch assignment.
Cascade (or the more
On Jun 1, 2012, at 2:54 AM, T.J. Crowder wrote:
Hey, no stress -- always happy to have input. Just please, no more bogus
comparisons to `with`.
Could we please avoid derogatory terms like bogus? I'm talking about what
people see when they look at code (more below). That's a valid
On Jun 1, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
-Original Message-
From: es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org [mailto:es-discuss-
boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Allen Wirfs-Brock
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 04:05
We haven't eliminated the ability to define object literals that
On Jun 1, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Kevin Smith wrote:
Regarding private names: I'm not convinced that private, non-reflective
names are unproblematic in and of themselves. I would personally like to see
more exploration on this front, with concrete use-cases. What useful things
can we do with
On 1 June 2012 18:02, David Herman dher...@mozilla.com wrote:
I just take issue with the over-broad analogy to `with`. The problem with
`with` is that it's statically undecidable whether any variable in the body
is bound by the object or by something else in the scope chain.
Yeah, at least,
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:16 AM, David Herman dher...@mozilla.com wrote:
1. Paving cowpaths: Crockford's closures-for-private-properties pattern but
without the per-instance costs:
function CrockClass() {
var myPrivateData = ...;
// one copy per instance
this.myMethod =
On Jun 1, 2012, at 12:26 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
These can (and now are) all done in multiple imperative steps. Mustache
allows all of these sorts of object extensions to be accomplished using the
exact same beautiful object literal syntax.
A beautiful syntax for something that can
T.J. Crowder wrote:
On 1 June 2012 18:02, David Herman dher...@mozilla.com
mailto:dher...@mozilla.com wrote:
I just take issue with the over-broad analogy to `with`. The
problem with `with` is that it's statically undecidable whether
any variable in the body is bound by the object
On Jun 1, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Oliver Hunt wrote:
Also, I won't be around on email for the next week or so as I'm helping out
on the ALC (if you feel like sponsoring here's a url:
http://www.tofighthiv.org/site/TR/AIDSLIFECYCLE11/AIDSLifeCycleCenter?px=2583919pg=personalfr_id=1440)
Go Ollie!
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