Matthew O'Brien

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I've thought about this and believe that it will cause a small amount of confusion. That being said I don't believe this will be an issue for experienced developers.

We may want to start using discriminated unions to circumvent the issue completely. From an API perspective this shouldn't be a major change. However the performance benefits of tagged unions...

This is a very important part of implementing ECMAScript 5 and should be given priority.

@fholm - I've added the new label to each issue.

@otac0n - From the looks of it the BCL only caches for static methods on the Regex object so the increase in performance makes sense.

What if when you import a generic object you generate a proxy object with a special override of member access syntax. ``` var ls = new List[System.String](); ``` This compiler,...

@fholm - Hmm, I may not have described my idea appropriately. What I meant to say was that when you import a generic type the identifier `List` will resolve to...

@fholm - I like your late binding idea. My idea would of course not support multiple type definitions so the array parameter to the special constructor makes sense.

@NinoFloris Is there any news about this issue?

@roji I completely understand but one could argue that supporting `IReadOnlyList` is a reasonable call as both `Array` and `List` support them both out of the box. Making an assignment...