On 4 December 2013 11:14, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:
> I took him to mean "please support const or let" - for sure! :-)

To voice the con side, I'm not fond of binders in conditions because
they depend on -- and thus encourage overuse of -- falsy/truthy values
or other implicit-conversion-like techniques (and their metastasis in
APIs). I have seen that harm overall clarity more than it helps, at
least in C++.

/Andreas

To voice the con side, I'm not fond of binders in conditions because
they depend on -- and thus encourage overuse of -- falsy/truthy values
or other implicit-conversion-like techniques (and their metastasis in
APIs). I have seen that harm overall clarity more than it helps, at
least in C++.