On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 17, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Do we log "you need me" only when f is called for the first time? >>> >>> >>> Sorry - that makes no sense. What I meant was: >>> >>> module A { >>> console.log("you need me"); >>> export var x = "x"; >>> } >>> >>> export function f() { >>> console.log(A.x); >>> } >>> >>> Do we log "you need me" only when f is called for the first time? >> >> I think that would be far to hard to understand. Instead, we should >> treat a module with a reference like `A.x` to an unimported module as >> if it implicitly had an import of `A`, so "you need me" would be >> logged as soon as the surrounding module was imported, even if `f` is >> never called. >> -- > > > Is the reference to A required to get the implicit import and hence implicit > initialization? For example in: > > module Outer { > /* no export */ module A { > console.log("you need me"); > export var x = "x"; > } > > export function f() { > console.log("no reference to A"); > } > } > > I would expect inner modules to always be initialized when their outer module > is initialized
That would make the semantics of wrapping things in a module, and then importing that module, substantially different than just having a top-level module. I think regularity suggests that "you need me" not be logged here. -- sam th [email protected] _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
