Stakes in the ground

[masak]

It seems I write these issues these days instead of blog posts. Very well.

This issue is a self-closing one about the new spec I'm writing. Oh right, I'm writing a new spec, check it out! (At the time of writing, I'm up to about chapter 6 or so.)

Anyway, I realized that there were some "soft" topics I wanted to write about, that are more about design sensibilities and "taste" — stakes in the ground — than about the objective things that go in the spec itself. Subjective stuff, basically. But somehow rooted in reasoning, or at least I'd like to think so.

I'll stub out the subsequent sections as individual comments, and then fill them in. After that, I'll close this issue.

[masak]

Variable scope

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Hoisting

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Initialization

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Thunking

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Type conversions

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Object model

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Generic functions

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Call-by-value vs call-by-name

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