Brendan Eich wrote:
Irakli Gozalishvili wrote:
Few questions on this new arrow functions:
let foo = x => x * x
1. What is foo.prototype ?
2. What does new foo(y) does ?
The idea with arrow function syntax (as opposed to block-lambda
revival) was to be as close to "just syntax" for functions. Obviously
we've made early-error restrictions but this design goal still stands.
So the answers are:
1. Same as for any user-defined function (a fresh Object instance).
2. Same as for any user-defined function.
Oops, I left off something important. Since we agreed on lexical |this|
binding, there's no way for the new object to flow into the arrow
function. So I'm wrong, the answers are:
1. Same as for any built-in function: no .prototype property at all.
2. Arrow-functions lack [[Construct]] so you cannot 'new' them.
This makes arrows like built-ins. They're still functions, per my other
answers.
I'll update the strawman (which should be promoted shortly).
Thanks for the good questions!
/be
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