On Tue Feb 03 2015 at 6:26:58 PM Erik Hesselink <hesselink@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
> Now that I actually write this all out, I'm beginning to think I *am*
> opposed to the proposal overall, though not by a wide margin. It seems to
> fall into the "too little, too late" category: the benefits it brings are
> not massive due to my three points above, and the disruption introduced to
> the ecosystem is potential massive.

What is the potential massive disruption?

Erik

1. Breakage of existing code due to lack of type inference

2. Breakage of existing tutorials/documentation

3. Confusing error messages

I didn't really want to drill into it because that seems to be the point of discussion of this entire thread.