On Monday, 2011-05-09 at 11:02 , Kyle Simpson wrote:
> Let's ignore popularity level for the moment, no other proposal has analog
> > of `=>` which is a solution for a real problem:
> >
> > var self = this;
> > function callback() {
> > self....
> > }
>
> Maybe I missed something, but didn't Brendan's #-function proposal specify
> lexical `this` binding, so that:
>
> function foo() {
> this.bar = "baz";
> return #(x){ this.bar = x; };
> }
>
> Isn't that the spirit of what => would give us?
>
Yes and this case makes following example extremely confusing:
MyObject.prototype.bar = #(x) { this.bar = x }
Is this instance of MyObject ? So we need to use `#` in some places, but in
other cases we need to stick to long form `function`. I think `->` and `=>` is
way more intuitive and simple.
> --Kyle
>
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