Language Size (was Re: [TLUG]: ECMAScript ("Javascript") Version 4 - FALSE ALARM)

[Brendan Eich]

Yes, good points:

* Packages de-sugar to namespaces, pragmas, and a missing primitive  
akin to gensym, to make the unforgeable package-public and package- 
internal namespaces. They're almost totally syntactic conveniences.

* Along with reflecting the Program production's semantics, program  
units allow programmers to express and check dependencies -- the two  
forms: unit reference, 'use unit [locator]'; and unit provision 'use  
unit [locator] { body }', are the familiar require/provide verbs from  
other languages. This is a critical missing feature from ES1-3.

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