Shijun He wrote:
ES5 strict mode disallow Function declaration in any statements. It's
fine, but Function declaration in top labelled statements seems
harmless, why not relax the rules to allow them so we can use "Labeled
Modules Specification" ? Though it seems too late to fix.
It is, see below.
Code example:
'use strict' // cause SyntaxError: In strict mode code, functions can
only be declared at top level or immediately within another function.
exports: function area(x1, y1, x2, y2){
return length(x1, x2) * length(y1, y2);
}
This is a labeled named function expression statement, given a ; or ASI
after the closing brace. We can't change its meaning to declare a
function area, with hoisted name. That's an incompatible change, and
while it might seem unlikely to break any real code, you would be surprised.
People tend to make unnecessary labels, especially in event handlers
where javascript: at the front of the HTML attribute value has been seen
in the wild. Couple that with a function expression that is not
parenthesized, but possibly immediately invoked, and you have real trouble.
The grammatical problem is harder: we use lookahead restriction,
ExpressionStatement :
[lookahead ∉ {{, function}] Expression ;
to prevent a function expression from starting an expression statement.
To allow a labeled function declaration (not expression) we would have
to make this lookahead restriction conditional on whether the
ExpressionStatement is labeled.
Crock and I have proposed restricting labeled statements to those that
could use the label (not expression statements, currently; but block
lambdas could make this future-hostile, although we have nearly
unanimously ruled out Tennent's Correspondence Principle designs in the
future that want such a label-using block-lambda). See
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:block_vs_object_literal
This looks like more trouble than it is worth, and again, it's an
incompatible change. Those rogue javascript: labels exist on the web.
/be
References:
Labeled Modules Specification:
https://github.com/labeledmodules/labeled-modules-spec
LMS implementation: https://npmjs.org/package/linkjs
my.js (ES6-like module system which utilize the same ideas from LMS
for import/export syntax): http://github.com/hax/my.js
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hax
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