Language Design: The Cost of Everything

Published on 2022-07-07.
Merit Points Item
-100 Adding a language feature to do something that can already be done
-90 Adding a language feature to do something that can be implemented in a library
-80 Adding a language feature to do something that can be achieved by fixing a compiler bug
-70 Adding a new element to the global namespace
-60 Adding a new element to a util namespace
-20 Adding a new element to the standard library