Operator overloading revisited

[Brendan Eich]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Mike Wilson wrote:

> Brendan Eich wrote:
>> If you're worried that the 'class' keyword will hypnotize
>> the masses into locking things down overmuch, then you
>> don't trust the masses very much. They'll mostly avoid
>> new stuff, and any who get burned by inability to monkey-
>> patch (which is *not* an unmixed blessing) will retreat,
>> and probably start a "don't use 'class'" movement.
>>
>> This is not 'final' in Java (which pace Mark, I believe
>> was overused, including in the standard library, but
>> which also has different enough semantics that I wouldn't
>> drag it in here as a precedent. We're talking about sugar
>> for ES3 and ES5 facilities already implemented, or nearly
>> implemented.
>
> Will class inheritance then desugar to classical
> prototype/constructor assignments?

The current class proposal,

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:classes

has zero inheritance.

/be