One thing that has come up in my number crunching is the repetition of the character sequence "this.". If we allowed @ (ala CoffeeScript) as a shorthand for "this.", then we could, if nothing else, shave perhaps 1-3% off of the size of minified code.
Other advantages: - A pain point for doing OO programming in javascript is the required "this" repetition. A shorthand would alleviate that pain. - If private names are allowed as the "name" in @name, then we would have a concise syntax for private "member" access. See this example <https://gist.github.com/2007371>. (This example describes a hypothetical class syntax, which I'm not proposing in this thread. But it does illustrate the @name concept.) kevin
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