On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Brandon Benvie
<bran...@brandonbenvie.com> wrote:
> I understand that there's limitations on what can be packed into this
> release and in particular this proposal pushes the limits. But I don't buy
> the ES7-is-around-the-corner wager for two reasons.
>
> The first reason is that I believe it's likely going to be a lot harder to
> get syntax changes into ES7 than for ES6. ES6 is basically the cruise boat
> to new syntax and once that boat sets sail it's going to be another decade
> before anyone wants to screw around with breaking syntax changes.
What are the breaking syntax changes in ES6?
> Introducing breaking syntax changes in every release just isn't going to
> feasible with no language support for gracefully handling unknown syntax.
>
> The second reason is that even if my prediction for syntax changes in ES7
> proves false, anything that does live in ES7 can expect to be unusable for
> practical purposes until ES7 is released. By the time that happens people
> will either have decided symbols with no syntax support aren't worth the
> trouble, or the world will have just that much more ugly code in it.
>
> Syntactic support for Symbols, of all the things on the table that are not
> sure things, is the one that *needs* to be in ES6.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote:
>>
>> let iterable = { *[iterator]() { yield 5; } };
>>
>> Presented without comment...
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I reject this kind of argument. That code is simply more
>> concise than:
>>
>> let iterable = { [iterator]: function*() { yield 5 } };
>>
>>
>> Given that the concise notation means that ': function' is omitted,
>> wouldn’t it be better to write:
>>
>> let iterable = { [iterator]*() { yield 5; } };
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
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