Re: Expression-local variables and 'let'

> A question of priorities. Nice has a few strong points to make. One
> is that a powerful type system can be used in practice, and that it
> bring improtant benefits. 

> A second is that multi-methods is a better approach than class-based
> OO. There are other languages with multi-methods, but no mainstream
> one, so this point is also an important one to make.

> Third, that this approach to "OO" fits particularly well with the 
> functional paradigm.

> My goal with Nice is to demonstrate in practice that the above main 
> points are worth learning about, and to provide a very pleasant
> language to work with.

It's these "main goals" appeal to me.

I'm looking for basic things: simple visibility control, type inference
for polymorphic cases to make parameterised classes usable, integration
with development tools, java integration...

Lack of user-defined statements, lack of novel string concatenation
syntax, isn't stopping me writing code in Nice - lack of visibility
control is ;-)

best wishes, Isaac


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