You can still use them to make almost-completely-private methods and properties, it's just the syntactic sugar that was dropped: http://raganwald.com/2015/06/0

You can still use them to make almost-completely-private methods and properties, it's just the syntactic sugar that was dropped: http://raganwald.com/2015/06/04/classes-are-expressions.html http://raganwald.com/2015/06/04/classes-are-expressions.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9660658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9660658