2010/4/29 Mark S. Miller <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The JSConf audience poll did provoke someone to suggest "fun", and I >> mentioned "fn" (the ML family languages have both). Two letters or three >> might be few enough, and avoid the line-noise and can't-type-Greek issues. > > Neither "fun" nor "fn" are reserved identifiers. They are short ascii > identifiers, so conflicts are virtually guaranteed. I don't see any > realistic way to make them keywords without either breaking the web or (in > your terminology) raising the opt-in migration tax too high. Am I missing > something? If there is a painless way to introduce short keywords that > weren't previously reserved, I'd love to understand that.
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=file:\.js$+\bfun\b http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=file:\.js$+\bfn\b fun is used as an identifier in dojo in the first hit, and fn is used as an identifier in jquery in the first hit. > -- > Cheers, > --MarkM > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
