prototype for operator proposal for review

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Luke Hoban <lukeh at microsoft.com> wrote:
>>> That sort of pattern certainly can be repeated if push comes to shove.  But I believe doing so is far inferior to dedicated, first-class syntactical support to make the semantics absolutely unambiguous and un-confusable with anything else.
>
> This makes sense.  I just want to make sure that the fundamental capability to subclass built-in objects is available via libraries for text/javascript, with the new syntax offering the more performant option for text/harmony.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but <| seems like something that could
be provided to 'text/javascript' just as easily as
'text/the-next-javascript'.  Unlike using |module| as a keyword, or
changing the scope rules or |typeof null|, no working
'text/javascript' program uses <| at the moment.
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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu