On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Claus Reinke <[email protected]>wrote:
> When reading Dave's post on "Static module resolution" [1], > the section on "Future-compatibility for macros" struck me > as a case where users/proponents of different module systems > seem to be talking past each other. All agree that there is an > important feature, but the approaches differ so much that the > common purpose may not be obvious. > IMO this feature should be staged for addition after we get modules in ES. jjb > > - ES modules: > compile-time imports allow for syntax import, once > syntax declarations/exports/macros are introduced > > - node modules: > require.extensions [2] (long time undocumented) allows > registering alternative loaders for preprocessing alternative > syntax (coffeescript, streamline, ..) > > - require.js/AMD: loader plugins allow to handle alternative > resource formats as module dependencies [3,4] > > I just wanted to make sure that participants in this discussion > are aware of these similarities. [4] does briefly compare AMD's > loader plugins with node's require.extensions. > > Btw: for all the usefulness of plugins, they do seem to express > syntax dependencies (which plugin to use) differently than code > dependencies (which modules to load). > > Claus > http://clausreinke.github.com/ > > [1] > http://calculist.org/blog/**2012/06/29/static-module-**resolution/<http://calculist.org/blog/2012/06/29/static-module-resolution/> > [2] > http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/**api/globals.html#globals_** > require_extensions<http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/globals.html#globals_require_extensions> > [3] > http://www.sitepen.com/blog/**2012/06/25/amd-the-definitive-**source/<http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2012/06/25/amd-the-definitive-source/> > [4] > http://tagneto.blogspot.ca/**2012/06/es-modules-** > suggestions-for-improvement.**html<http://tagneto.blogspot.ca/2012/06/es-modules-suggestions-for-improvement.html> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/es-discuss<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> >
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