On Aug 8, 2012, at 6:11 PM, David Herman wrote: > On Aug 8, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > ... >>> Allen should correct me, but I think he doesn't disagree, since he says: >>> >>>> And, := should not be thought of or become the common way to do >>>> assignment. That should remain the job of = >> >> (That double-cited text is not mine, however -- it is from Allen, in reply >> to me to Doug -- but Allen is not on your To/cc list for some reason...) > > Yes, I was purposefully quoting Allen (note my words, "Allen should correct > me... he says:") from another message via copy/paste-quoted. I try to avoid > needless proliferation of messages when I can condense into a single reply. >
Yes, you correctly represented by point. Rick Waldron innerHTML example shows how misusing := for group assignment could go wrong. I'm not currently opposed to the possibility of a separate group assignment operator (eg, .=) put it wouldn't replace the need for := Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
