On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Implicitly treating statements in expression context as expressions could be > done but I think it smells bad on account of turning erronous programs into > working programs, Such programs throw syntax errors when interpreted so presumably not many exist where the program is of value. > and possibly as a WTF teaching moment. I can imagine this would be a mental change but ... > These may not be fatal objections, though. TC39 has not really considered > making statements into expressions. > > See also > > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:completion_reform Completion reform is exactly what made me ask about this. If expressions already become values and statements all have completion values, could JavaScript more or less do away with statements and just have expressions? Peter _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
