Sep 27 meeting notes

[Axel Rauschmayer]

> I'd argue that my pattern also supports #5 as IDE's can recognize the pattern.  An imperative class definition of all that most Smalltalk implementations every had and they generally had fine IDEs.


From what I remember from my Smalltalk days (literally – a 14 day project at school ;-), Smalltalk’s syntax is much more amenable to this kind of thing. Just the fact that if-then-else is a method of boolean objects is brilliant.

In JavaScript, it might be more natural to take the chain block -> function -> object literal one step further and add class literals. I always liked how lightweight things felt in JavaScript (compared to, say, Java or C++). And if we keep object literals minimal, that won’t go away.

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