I'm really happy that arrow syntax proposal was made and thanks a lot Brendan!!
I'd like to point out that coffeescript has a huge success and in the end it's just syntax sugared js. I think this is quite good proof that syntax change like this is more then welcome. Another thing I'd like to point out that arrow function is not just saving keystrokes of typing `function` and `return`, but also gives even bigger win IMO via `=>` when binding of `this` pseudo variable is desired. This case BTW was not addressed by `#`. Even though `->` is one more char in comparison to `#`, `=>` is much less then `.bind(this)`, in addition having both -> and => feels just natural! Regards -- Irakli Gozalishvili Web: http://www.jeditoolkit.com/ Address: 29 Rue Saint-Georges, 75009 Paris, France On Sunday, 2011-05-08 at 19:09 , Rick Waldron wrote: > Just read > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2008-November/008218.html and > I'm buzzing with the idea of Lisp style functions as "inspiration" for a > short hand. While I realize the idea is likely absurd, but I'm thinking in > terms of concepts that _all_ JavaScript devs know and understand. > > This is a super simple, first-pass, rough-draft, not-too-serious, > request-for-comments... > > https://gist.github.com/961495 > > Rick > > > > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Faisal Vali <fais...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Jorge <jo...@jorgechamorro.com> wrote: > > > On 08/05/2011, at 05:52, Faisal Vali wrote: > > > > > >> (...) I find the > > >> aesthetics of the arrow-syntax far more consistent with javascript's > > >> C-based-syntactic roots than the preprocessor-tainted '#' (...) > > > > > > Consistent ? > > > > > > -> in C has a *totally* different meaning ! > > > > Yes, but that is why I alluded to a syntactic commonality and not a > > semantic one. > > But, I can see how the disparity in semantics might bother some programmers. > > _______________________________________________ > > es-discuss mailing list > > es-discuss@mozilla.org > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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