Re: Re: Re: class proposal 2
Greg Ewing <[email protected]>
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Mark Hahn <[email protected]>: > Prototypes are actually great they way they are in Prothon. They > have minor problems in scaring people when they are first > encountered. I wouldn't say people are "scared". I'd say they're unconvinced that the classless approach has significant benefits over the classful one. So far I've seen very little evidence of any such benefits. If they do exist, you'll have to do a better job of identifying them and pointing them out if you want people to take Prothon seriously. I don't think that adding classes on top solely to make newcomers feel "comfortable" is a good idea. Language features should exist if and only if they provide something truly useful. In the current proposals, there is too much overlap between prototype and class functionality to justify having both. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [email protected] +--------------------------------------+