Matthew O'Brien
Matthew O'Brien
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...