On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > Jason Orendorff wrote: >> ... > > Yeah, not as strong a precedent -- we should treat JS as big brother here, > over time. > >> I actually kind of like Allen's argument about not wanting to >> encourage the use of array comprehensions for complicated use cases. >> However I'm not sure how that squares with a distaste for nanny syntax >> restrictions! > > Yup. I thought perhaps Allen left out a "not" or otherwise inverted his > meaning, though.
I don't think so: > My personal bias, is that comprehensions are just sugar that are best used to > express relatively simple and common construction use cases. Complicated > sequences of |for| and |if| clauses will be rarely seen and hence less > understandable than the equivalent explicit looping expansions. My personal preference would be: 1) don't have comprehensions at all (but that's not harmonious, so I'm not actually suggesting it) 2) a) one or more fir clauses followed by a single optional if clause (what is currently in the draft) Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
