Re: How do you change all elements in a Collection at the same time?
phillip.s.powell@gmail.com wrote:
Lew wrote:
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
I do not think it is fair to call closures a "script-kiddie
hack language" feature.
It is a language feature with some merits.
You are right. However, when something like "eval" (or "evil", per Mark Rafn)
combines with dynamic typing and a few other things that interpreted languages
sport, you start to see some tangled code.
Speaking on behalf of the "kiddie script" writers, everything you said
sailed over my head like a satellite. I have no clue what you're
talking about, and I happen to love eval() because it makes me write
one line of code instead of hundreds of lines of unmanageable code
every time. Can't see the entanglement, dude.
eval and closures are really not related - the first is a
library feature - the second is a language feature.
We could add eval to Java. Since Java 1.6 support JavaScript
it has been added to Java.
I think the dynamicly typing features is better to divide
the waters.
A lot of programmers like the old way of declaring something
to have a type and the compiler & runtime to check it.
This paradigm is being challenged by some languages that has become
popular the last 5 years (some of the languages are actually way
older).
Arne
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