On Sep 28, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rick Waldron wrote: >> # Thin Arrow? >> (Presented by Brendan Eich, Mozilla) >> >> We have the fat-arrow, supported by Kevin Smith's research, it's a win. Some >> voices in the community don't want the unexpected behaviour of the >> soft-bound lexical `this` > > "bound 'this'" would do -- "hard-bound" if you insist. > > I think soft-bind is dead as discussed here, since it adds a flag argument or > equivalent that must be set by every caller anywhere It's demonstrably the same overhead as hard binding. > -- this won't fly with V8 and SpiderMonkey and other engines. > > I'd prefer just "bound" so we can stop pretending there's a "soft" option. -- Alex Russell [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] BE03 E88D EABB 2116 CC49 8259 CF78 E242 59C3 9723 _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
