Hi. First time posting to the list, so please forgive if I am not following proper approach.
I'd like to make one proposal for future of EMCAScript. I would like to see support for `#` comment notation. The reasons for this are more interesting than one might think. First, of course, is the simple fact that `#` is a very common notation among programming languages. It is used by Shell scripts, Ruby, Python, even Coffeescript, and many others. Secondly, `#` is preferable to `//` in that it is only one character instead of two, and albeit subjective (IMHO) it just seems a little bit more aesthetic. But another reason, that few will at first consider, is the relationship between JSON and YAML. Their respective development teams made an effort to ensure JSON was a perfect subset of YAML. Now there is consideration of JSON5 (https://github.com/aseemk/json5). JSON5 adds support for comments, however it is Javascript style comments, where as YAML supports `#` style comments. This causes the superset-subset relationship to break. To help remedy this going forward, it would be very helpful if EMCAScript also supported `#` comments. The YAML spec could in turn add support for `//` style comments. To be clear, I am not suggesting that `//` be deprecated. That would simply break far too much old code for no good reason! I am just seeking for `#` to be supported too. Thanks for consideration, trans _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
