Re: Arguments in default constructors and implicit super()

an implicit call to super(). Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss

Re: Class method addition and replacement (was Re: AOP Compatibility)

will cater to those who are used to a more traditional approach? My gut feeling to those two questions are yes and no, but unfortunately that's all it is; a gut feeling. Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org

Re: Class method addition and replacement (was Re: AOP Compatibility)

), or untraditional (to the extent that JS authors today try to fake it, they are not). Sure. I'll do my best to do that, keeping in mind that some of the concepts being discussed WRT language design are outside my field of expertise. Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries [1] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0

Re: Class method addition and replacement (was Re: AOP Compatibility)

appropriate for another developer to change, but that strikes me as a bit of a fantasy land. The majority of code which requires patching by external developers was never written to be patched, but people do it anyway. This is good, don't you agree? -- Nathan de Vries

Re: Date Format?

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Re: Primitives vs. Objects, Ruby-like features

. Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss

Re: ES3.1 Proposal Working Draft

and 3D Flash libraries like Papervision3D make extensive use of floating point math. In an environment where tweaks like multiplying fixed points instead of dividing yields substantial performance increases, the currency calculations you speak of fade into insignificance. Cheers, -- Nathan de

Re: proper tail calls

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 16:09 -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: For this list, reply doesn't default to the list. Mailman (which Mozilla uses) allows the following which works quite nicely (although it's a highly religious topic in some circles): reply_goes_to_list = 1 # 1 = This list -- Nathan de

Re: proper tail calls

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 16:48 -0800, Brendan Eich wrote: Is this a big problem, or only a sporadic nuisance... The latter. -- Nathan de Vries smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org

Re: Closures and let blocks

bears no meaning within the scope of the let expression. Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss

Re: Spec proposal

asking Flash developers at the moment what their requirements are for decimal math. Is the spec. at the point where implementers can start preempting it? Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Es4-discuss

Read-only Top-level Classes

referred to). It strikes me as somewhat non-obvious that a top-level, self-hosted class in a meta-programmable language is read only due to security concerns. What's the side effect of locking down these classes? Cheers, -- Nathan de Vries [1] http://ejohn.org/blog/re-securing-json [2] http

Re: Enforcing return value types

will know that the scope of the ticket is greater than that of functions with void return value types defined. Regards, -- Nathan de Vries smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https