On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Trans <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 # is already on hold for several potential syntax additions: - sealed object initializers http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:obj_initialiser_methods - Tuples http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:tuples - Records http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:records Rick > > 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 >
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