[lmm]

But we're talking about language design. Of course it's harder to use the feature the language doesn't have than the feature the language does have. The whole point is that the language should have that feature, because if it did have that feature then code using that feature would be better than code using the current features.

> It's like complaining that a functional language doesn't have an easy way to write mutating procedural code.

I do complain about such languages. That's why I use Scala.