class extensions

[Lutger]

kris wrote:
> 
> Yeah, the proposed extensions raised all kinds of red flags for me at 
> the conference.
> 
> Bluntly, it felt like the notion of "structured programming" was being 
> tossed out in favor of "slapdash programming" ... a brand new paradigm 
> to go along with the other(s) being adopted :)

What are the objections to this? Are there technical pitfalls?

I liked to idea very much. It gives a flexible way of object-oriented / 
object-based programming similar to how I often see it implemented in C. 
Plus one can achieve a very nice syntactic sugar for call chaining, 
which is a great benefit I think. I thought this syntax for arrays is 
generally appreciated, so why not extend it for other types?