On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 21, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Jon Zeppieri wrote: > >> I'm just not clear on how that relates to the downward funargs point. > > It doesn't. Two separate points. Sorry, I should have used a bulleted list or > something :-P.
Thanks for the clarification. > > >> In Ruby, for example, the anonymity of the implicit block argument >> prevents its capture and guarantees that the param is downwards-only. >> It seems unrelated to parenthesis. > > Right, and we are convinced that this is an unnecessary concession in Ruby's > design toward ease of implementation. Analyzing Harmony code to link uses to > definitions it not hard, and arguments.callee is poisoned pill (already; ES5 > strict). > Absolutely agree. -Jon _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
