On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Saying JS has function expressions that are wildly popular is jumping to a > conclusion. How is that jumping to conclusions? All the JavaScript code that I read uses function expressions. > JS is "popular" in that it's the only built-in browser language, but let's > say it is popular on its own these days (NodeJS, e.g.). Not sure how this relates to the success of functions in JavaScript code. > It still does not follow that function expressions are popular enough that > shorter syntax would not make the language more usable for enough developers > that shorter syntax is worth adding. JavaScript function expressions are not suffering neglect due to their length. I doubt shorter syntax will increase their popularity because function expressions seem to be used where the concept is appropriate even. Separately from that I don't think JavaScript needs shorter function syntax but that is up for debate. Peter _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
