On Oct 8, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> Kevin Smith wrote:
>> Also, if concise methods introduce a binding, then there's the hazard that 
>> an outer binding of the same name will get unintentionally shadowed.
> 
> I have to agree with Kevin and I think Allen: the |this| binding requirement 
> means defining the *method* name as a free variable misleads. It can only be 
> used correctly in general after "this." or "other.", so we should not 
> translate concise method definitions to property definitions of named 
> function expressions.

The current draft spec. does not introduce a binding for the method name and 
this thread did a good job of re-identifying the reasons.  I doesn't sound like 
we should change the draft in this regard.

Allen
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