On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Russell Leggett wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2012, at 2:03 AM, Russell Leggett wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> //using : instead of <|, shorten Email.prototype to just Email
>>> let email = Email:"[email protected]";
>>
>> Basically you are saying that : becomes an expression operator. However,
>> that creates an ambiguity (and potential backwards compatibility issues)
>> with the use of : as a statement label designator:
>>
>> Email: "[email protected]"; //already valid ES meaning Email
>> is the label of this statement.
>
> Yes, I thought about this potential ambiguity but thought it was no different
> than the potential ambiguity of block statements vs object liberals and
> therefore OK.
>
>> Email: "[email protected]"; // label
>> let email = Email: "[email protected]"; // operator
>
> Considering the statement form would be useless without assignment, I didn't
> think it would really cause confusion.
consider the proposed do {} operator that has a lot of fans.
We have to account for what this will mean:
Email: (do {...break Email;...}, do { ...});
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