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They are standard built-in “classes” and the design of ES6 class declarations is directly based upon the structure of those “classes”.
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Also have to point out, TC39 itself lacks technically correct terms for lots of stuff. Every time I've presented Temporal I've referred to it as a set of new types for date and time. It's not really new types though. But nobody knows what else to call it! So types.
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Object-think is fundamentally about identifying, naming, and reasoning about computatinal abstractions (i.e. classes) that manifest multiple descrete “instances” that share a common behavior.
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I think the naming choices for let and const was indeed a mistake. For ES6, we carried forward, without critical review, the naming choices made as part of the aborted ES4 effort.
But note that "const" had been present as a immutable "var" in SpiderMonkey since 2000 (JS1.5)
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If we thought that block scoped assignable declarations were actually needed we could have added them using a name such as 'letvar' or perhaps as a prefix 'let var'.
In either case, the semantics would be the same as ES6 'let'.
But I think we would be fine without it.
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What I learned today was that my circa 2000 decision to stop bringing overhead projector transparancies for my talks may have been premature.
Would it be a conf without some tech difficulties 😂. Props to @awbjs for taking to the stage without access to his speaker-notes annndddd winging it like an absolute boss
#GoBlueRoom #yow19 @yow_conf
@awbjs - JavaScript: Skeletons in the closest
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This sort of unnecessary fabricated intellectual conflict is the bane of our profession
I've noticed that functional programming adherents get turned off by the *keyword class* much more than any particular aspect of OO programming.
In contrast, people who like object oriented programming don't have a visceral dislike for the keyword function.
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Hey, I’m Dec. 6 on the 2019 Smalltalk advent calendar.
javascript.christmas/2019/6
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Allen Wirfs-Brock retweeted
I'll be giving a short talk at this meetup on using Secure ECMAScript to secure... a light bulb. Not a talk about how it might work, but a real commercial light bulb (hacked!) running SES in XS by @moddabletech. I think this is my 4th talk built around a lightbulb this year...
We are hosting our first SES Meetup today! 🎉 Read and learn about SES here 👉medium.com/agoric/ses-securi… and if you wish to attend, please RSVP here eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=8…
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