Bob Nystrom

> I'd be most in favor of proposals that take us towards something that's really great. I understand that we may have to think 3-5 years ahead while adding small...

> Yeah, I don't think control flow elements are in a conflict with blocks. Good to hear! That's my feeling too.

Oh, that is an interesting idea. That opens up some questions around whether you could use `...` to spread a List into a map literal too. My general impression is...

Thanks for the pointer!

> Considering modern x86-64 processors have a ~48 bit address space, how likely is it for this potential memory leak to be a problem? Conservative collectors *are* used in practice,...

Replying to @mraleph's comment https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/1077#issuecomment-688808539 on this issue since this is the canonical one for enum shorthands: > I think this is extremely simple feature to implement - yet it...

> FWIW you list design challenges, not implementation challenges. Yes, good point. I mispoke there. :) > As described it's a feature on the level of complexity of double literals...

> I don't know if `#` by itself is used for anything right now. It's used by symbol literals. That's another feature that doesn't carry its weight and was arguably...

It sounds like there's two orthogonal questions: 1. For the subset of expressions that are valid to appear in a pattern, do we loosen the restriction on them being constant...

> it becomes very clear when we do an allocation. *Factory constructor has entered the chat.* The `new` keyword doesn't *mean* anything in Dart. It's just another kind of static...