>From the perspective of someone who writes JS every day, the parens look and feel "right".
Dave, you asked for some example code, this is actually from task.js: https://gist.github.com/e4e0e349f9cf35ad3370 On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:09 PM, David Herman <dher...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:23 PM, François REMY wrote: > > > If not (as it seems to me), it means that a block lambda will not be > used as a statement by itself. If it's the case, it should defined as an > Expression only, where there's no anonymous block to conflict the syntax. > That solution has been chosen for object notation in the past. That way, > > > > function() { > > { > > (a, b) > > a.add(b) > > } > > } > > > > would still be an anonymous block where > > > > function() { > > asyncAction(..., { (a, b) a.add(b); } } > > } > > > > would be a block lambda as an argument of an async function. No semantic > change for an identical syntax, in regards to strict ES5. > > So simple, and so brilliant. I love it! > > I must say, the parens look much prettier to me, and they're of course > more consistent with JS precedent. > > It does help to write a reasonable chunk of code to compare syntaxes for > uses of a feature "in the wild." Does some enterprising es-discusser wanna > take a big JS program with a bunch of little anonymous functions, swap them > out with block lambdas, and make two gists with the two different syntaxes? > That'd be super helpful. > > > And since I still continue to hope we'll ditch the unprefixed anonymous > block in some future revision of ES, that very small edge case could vanish > at the same time. > > I don't understand what you're referring to here -- what do you mean by > "unprefixed anonymous block?" > > > Does it seems possible/acceptable? > > Lovely. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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