> However I also have seen lots of convoluted code, exactly because such expressiveness is missing from the language. That's the operating point here. Leave ou

> However I also have seen lots of convoluted code, exactly because such expressiveness is missing from the language. That's the operating point here. Leave out expressivity, and tons of programmers write convoluted code. Leave it in, and a couple of clever people use it in an over-clever way.