>>>>> What do you think? Do you like -> better than <| ? Is it ok to not have >>>>> it available for some possible future function shorthand? >> >> Both => and -> have strong associations with function shorthands from C#, >> Scala, C++, Java 8, Perl, CoffeeScript, ML, Haskell and more. Whether or >> not JavaScript adopts a ->/=> shorthand in the future (I still think it >> should), many developers will think of it as having an association with >> functions. Using -> for the proto-of operator effectively also removes the >> ability to use => as function shorthand later, due to the syntactic >> similarity of these two operators.
> Any of these usages (at least for the more widely used languages) are fairly > new so I don't know that they establish that strong of a precedent for ES. They are new now, but 5 years from now when ES6 has breadth adoption these other languages will also be 5 years more established. Many programmers will work in at least one of these other languages as well as in JavaScript. There is also a relatively strong association of C-style languages using ->/=> as function shorthand, and JavaScript is still (for better or worse) primarily seen as a C-style language. Luke _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
