Re: Questions: Roadmap, Publicity/Grrovy, Regexps

JA> 2) Why the lack of publicity? Everyone is talking about Groovy, which is a
JA> nice language, but one that was hastely defined originally, and that now is
JA> going through a scary "design by comitee" process that can only make it
JA> worse. Why isn't people talking about Nice?

Perhaps becouse developers promice
"the time for more widespread publicity"
after the "1.0" release?
The language is pretty stable,
but visibility modifiers and stdlib documentaion
are very important things for widespread use indeed.

JA> 3) Still, Groovy implements some really nice ideas. One of them is making
JA> regular expressions first-class citizens through some syntatic sugar? Would
JA> the Nice designers considering adding regexp support to the language?

It would be nice if this syntatic sugar would allow
sugaring different regexp implementations,
so that, for example "import nice.regexp"
would use Sun Java regexp's by default,
"import nice.regexp.oro" would use the ORO Perl regexps,
and "import nice.regexp.jregex" would use the JRegex regexps...



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