Sep 27 meeting notes

[Brendan Eich]

On Sep 28, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Bob Nystrom wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Waldemar Horwat wrote:
> 
> > Trying to understand Oliver's objections to the current class proposal.
> 
> Oliver objects, as do others, to "punning" (my word) declarative syntax to define object properties, and mixing static and dynamic influences. He specifically cited the location of public exportable-definitions in the constructor body, instead of in the class body.
> 
> We then discussed how putting public x,y; for a class Point in the class body requires separate assignments in the constructor body.
> 
> At some point, didn't we discuss borrowing a bit from CoffeeScript and supporting this shorthand:
> 
>   class Point {
>     public x, y;
>     constructor(this.x, this.y) {} // <-- assigns args to instance fields
>   }
> 
> If we were feeling crazy, we could go further (similar to Scala) and allow:
> 
>   class Point {
>     constructor(public x, public y) {}
>   }
> 
> That gives you a declarative form, constructor argument, and initialization all in one place.

+∞

When are your edits to the proposal appearing? :-|

/be

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