My 'natural inclination' is to resist adding features that don't add
new function, so initial reaction to your suggestions is as follows:
1. Over loops
This really doesn't seem to buy much -- I like the idiom:
loop i=0 for anArray.length
which is clear and simple, and avoids the messy '-1'.
I'm also uncomfortable at adding more support for specific Java
classes (i.e., Vector), as this seems a bit of a 'slippery slope'.
2. In loops
This does add new function -- but again is getting very Java-
specific. Will add to WishList.
3. Delegation
Here the 'ideally would inherit from...' comment raises a "red
flag", for me .. suggests that the addition is a hack/workaround
for a more fundamental problem, and that really we need to go and
see what that is, rather than patch over it. What do other people
think?
I'm having to have a proposal for Inner class support out later this
weekend; this might affect the delegation proposal, too.
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Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow, IBM UK Laboratories
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