# proposal extensions (Was: Re: Sep 26 meeting notes)

Brendan Eich brendan at mozilla.com
Thu Sep 29 16:26:07 PDT 2011


On Sep 30, 2011, at 12:20 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:

> I don't see foo <| "abc" as creating an implicit wrapping.  I see it as explicit wrapping as you have to create a wrapper in order to set [[Prototype]] to foo.

Yes, it's not quite so bad in this light.


> But, of limited utility.  Syntactic restrictions are cheaper to implement than not very useful semantics.  However, the ore such syntactic restrictions we have the more the language feels like a patchwork of special cases.

Yeah. Not sure how I feel now, weighing wrapper-hackles vs. universality of <|.

/be



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