[thom]

Gotcha, totally fair points. It is an inherently conservative approach to standards, to take workarounds and pragmatic solutions that are already available within the community, and provide slightly cleaner (perhaps debatable) baked-in versions. You're right it doesn't add much, but at the same time... I feel the ick factor reducing with each release and my enjoyment of the language has grown over the years. I would certainly love to see those features used in common libraries and frameworks, but for practical reasons I suspect they think the same way you do, which is entirely valid.