Class literals: does "public" still make sense?

[Mark S. Miller]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Sep 25, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Kam Kasravi wrote:
>
> If the intent of classes is to provide a declarative syntax for its 'shape'
> then dropping the private syntax in lieu of private name objects seems to
> run counter to this philosophy.
>
>
> We did not agree to drop the private declaration syntax at the July TC39
> meeting. Perhaps my understanding of our agreement then does not match
> Marks?
>

It matches.


>
> What we agreed to drop was the private(this) straw syntax in the classes
> proposal, in favor of this[x], this[y], for private-declared private name
> objects x and y.
>

We definitely agreed to drop private(this) and private(other), as these were
only ever placeholders for a needed syntax anyway. My own experience trying
to use them is that they are unbearably verbose. We agreed to use the
this[x] syntax *provided* it works out, depending on the price syntax and
semantics of private names. Btw, I am optimistic it will work out. I just
want to keep that qualifier on the table ;).

-- 
    Cheers,
    --MarkM
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