Introducing Cobra

[SJS]

begin  quoting Chuck Esterbrook as of Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:28:15PM -0800:
> On Jan 4, 2008 1:55 AM, SJS <bpfh at stremler.net> wrote:
[chop]
> > Hm... and don't you lose that keystroke savings by having stuff like
> > "as" and "of" as keywords?  (If I'm reading the examples correctly,
> > you use "i as int" instead of "int i", which is an additional 3
> > keystrokes...
> 
> Yep, but I consider names to be really important and I prefer to have
> them up front:
> 
> class Point
> 
>     var _x as int
>     var _y as int
> 
> Also, if you use dynamic typing, like in Smalltalk or Python, you can
> just leave them off:
> 
> class Point
> 
>     var _x
>     var _y

Okay. So instead of having a "dynamic type" (a la ObjC's "id"), you
have optional static typing.... gotcha.

Did you keep the Smalltalk(ish?) "respondsTo:" concept?

[snip]
> > Worked for perl, didn't it? :)
> 
> For a time, but Python continues to rise while Perl continues to sink:
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

Well, that's because it's the new shiny.

[chop]
> > I actually would be really okay with a compiler that *complained*
> > about indentation inconsistencies.
> >
> > Honest!
> 
> ???
> 
> Are you really Stuart?

Nope.

Never been a Stuart.

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