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Re:Dart language by georgemcbay on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:01AM (#3092952)
Where's the best place to lodge our complaints?

I'm fine with the semicolons, but I'm not too keen on using underscore-starting identifiers to determine what is public and what is private.

Re:Dart language by munificent on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:38AM (#3093037)
The misc mailing list is the (strangely named) main one: https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/group/misc/topics. Join and fire away.

> I'm not too keen on using underscore-starting identifiers to determine what is public and what is private.

That's also been discussed. It has more going for it than may be at first apparent, but it has detractors too.

Re:Dart language by stephenhandley on Monday October 10, 2011 @08:40AM (#3093501)
_ for enforcing encapsulation is great, probably the one thing I've seen in dart that's exciting. simple way of giving an existing naming convention significance and cutting down on character overhead. i could see a whole line of languages expand on this idea.
Re:Dart language by dissident on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:14AM (#3092988)
The homepage links to this: http://www.dartlang.org/support/index.html.