Hi David, you remember correctly. Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:31 AM, David Bruant <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 11/03/2013 22:51, Andrea Giammarchi a écrit :
>
>  the outer `with` statement ... you see my point? we are dropping powerful
>> features in order to make JavaScript the toy we all think is since ever
>>
> A while ago I discussed the 'with' trick on es-discuss (I don't remember
> when, it was a message about dynamic loaders IIRC) and I think Mark's reply
> was that it was a "temporary" (ES5 era) hack and the proper ES6 way would
> be to use a custom loader (using the a custom 'global' property).
> In that instance, "with" isn't a powerful feature, it's a convenience used
> so that the relevant sandboxing code is 6 lines instead of a full parser,
> because if there was no "with", that's probably what Caja would be doing
> anyway.
>
> David
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    --MarkM
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