How much sugar do classes need?

[Mark Miller]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Jon Zeppieri <jaz at bu.edu> wrote:
>> var self = {
>>  toString[]: {|| '<' + self.getX() + ',' + self.getY() + '>'},
>>  getX[]: {|| x},
>>  getY[]: {|| y},
>>  pubInstVar[WE]: 4,
>>  pubInstConst[E]: -4,
>> };
>
> I find this ugly, but I don't have any great ideas.  I do want to
> point out, however, that one important combination is omitted in
> David-Sarah's proposal (modifier names aside).  Private instance
> variables would likely be represented as non-configurable,
> non-enumerable, yet writable properties.  I'm guessing that 'x' and
> 'y' (which are suggested by, but left out of the examples above) would
> fit that description.

x and y above are indeed private instance variables, but that's
precisely because they are not properties -- they are normal variables
lexically captured by the functions/lambdas which use them.


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    --MarkM