Hi,
I've been playing around with Rhino recently. It already implements a
"const" keyword which sounds close to the const proposal (i'm not strong
on the details of these). If I understand well, Rhino uses "Scriptable"
objects to store scopes. Constant variables are set as constants in
these scriptable objects. So, if I understand well, everything can be
set as constant in a scope... expect function arguments.
Of course, my point here is not to talk about Rhino, but ECMAScript:
Would it make sense to have constant function arguments?
If yes, how should it be declared?
One idea, based on other languages (C, maybe other) could be to do:
function f(const a, b){
return a+b;
}
This syntax currently throws a SyntaxError on latest Firefox, Chrome,
Opera, so i'll assume ES3 and 5.
Regarding rationale and motivation for const arguments, i would give the
same than for const variables which is to have better expressiveness
(which allows to catch some errors earlier and to perform easier static
analysis and optimizations)
David
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