>>21-22
Informed perhaps, but also biased:
·Coercion is notoriously bad in dynamic languages.
·Semicolons aren't an issue (hell, people put up with what Go does, which will actually bite you in the ass in practice.)
·The incompatibilities are overstated (i.e. are a matter of standards conformance—you can't blame
JSES for that, no matter what language is being implemented, it's just as likely to happen.)
·Operator Overloading Considered
[spoiler]Queastionable At Best
[spoiler]. Every language with operator overloading or templates needs a "good parts" book.
The scoping issue is bad, but at least there's lexical scope. Always use it. Namespacing is possible and not hard (or: it can be hard if you want it to be hard.) I've heard people complain about
this but it never bothered me. Yes it's weird.