Minimalist Classes

[Brendan Eich]

On Nov 1, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Quildreen Motta wrote:

> I like how clean the syntax is there, Brendan. I still feel class syntax would have more value if they presented a nice way for object composition besides inheritance.

Traits were factored out and I consider adding them in this exercise to be a "bridge too far".


> None the less, I think we could well get rid of those `var' inside the class-body, as long as it's not executable:

I don't think so, although Bob Nystrom's suggestions ended up simplified that way. It's awkward to use assignment expression as a declarative form. It suggests the body *is* executable. Instead, I went with 'var' as Bob did originally.

My view is that 'var' will die hard and for global-object-aliasing global variables, it's close to class prototype properties. There's no way to observe the prototype half-initialized. As noted, there's a risk people will think methods close over proto-vars/consts.

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