Peter Michaux wrote: > 2008/12/2 Jeff Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Since the goal seems to be allowing control structures like Smalltalk >> (yay!), how about specifying that one lambda that follows a function >> invocation is passed as the final argument to the invocation. > > Brendan seemed to reject the idea that "this" could be passed as the > first argument to a constructor, so that "this" could be explicitly > named, on the grounds that the parameter lists would not match. I > agree that parameter lists should match. I was just asking. > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2008-November/008203.html > > ---- > > If a trailing block outside the parameter list is passed as the last > argument, then what happens when there is a rest parameter as the last > argument in the parameter list? It gets a bit messy to determine if > the last argument passed in was the last argument of some rest > parameters or an optional trailing lambda.
Will ES-Harmony have labelled arguments? If it does then both of these problems go away, since the block argument can have a standard label, and similarly for the this argument. -- David-Sarah Hopwood _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
