Hmm, what is the purpose of language feature then if it need to be
circumvented?
Seems like people forget to use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor principles :)
Vassily has shown several benefits of using newspeak constructors that were not discussed further, and it doesn't look like a simple cut of a razor. The single place to describe slots and ease of migration are strong points.
For most of us good news are that Newspeak is being developed by a small team of incredibly experienced Smalltalk/Language architects for their own needs and they know what they do for sure. Vassily says it works and works well. They say - we listen :) The whole thing is their own business, but they kindly convinced management to release the result to the public. It is disappointing that such a great initiative is being described in not so nice terms.
Personally I anticipate Newspeak's release it it happens as the next great thing after Smalltalk (unfortunately Self was not released *properly* to be in between).
cheers,
Danil
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
