The direction is wrong. It’s what I like most about <| – that it’s graphical, intuitive and indicates a direction.
Is there a list of symbols that have already been rejected? I still like <| best (better than a word such as beget or proto), followed by <~ and <: On Mar 2, 2012, at 23:30 , Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > It was recently suggested to me that it is unlikely that we will ever adopt > -> as as function expression shorthand symbol and that this means we could > consider using that symbol sequence for other purposes. In particular, it > would be a reasonable and possibly less controversial alternative to the <| > symbol. I would have no objection to that switch and have written the > suggestion up at > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php#suggestion_to_replace_with > > Some examples of this usage of -> include: > > MyObject.prototype -> {a:1,b:2} > appArrayBehavior->[0,1,2,3,4,5] > let subclass = superclass -> function () {}; > var p = newRegExpMethods -> /[a-m][3-7]/ > > What do you think? Do you like -> better than <| ? Is it ok to not have it > available for some possible future function shorthand? > > Allen > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [email protected] home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com
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