Brendan Eich wrote: > Arguing by authority is a fallacy. We need specific solutions from > other languages that could compatibly fit into JS as extensions. I > welcome such specific proposals. The committee has before it the let- > as-better-var proposal, which was favorably received by many in Oslo.
Lex Spoon wrote: >> The approach you are saying won't >> work, is in fact the chosen and working solution for other languages >> that have gone this route. My understanding is that programmers using >> these languages have been happy with the arrangement. We all know about the benefits of specification by desugaring. (I do know a thing or two about macros, ya know.) But desugaring only works when the feature you want really *does* layer properly on top of an existing feature. The simple reason we haven't specified `let' as a desugaring into `function' is because we want them to behave differently. Dave _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
