On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Sebastian Markbåge <[email protected]>wrote:
> My biggest concern is that people will assume a certain structure of the
> module path. Then they will assume that relative paths and logical names
> can be used interchangeably.
>
> E.g. if I'm inside of package "a/b.js" I can access a top level package
> using either "../backbone.js" or "backbone". I may even use both patterns
> in the same package.
>
You could import "../backbone", a relative module name (note that it's not
a relative URL; the proposed default loader never treats module names as
relative URLs). It's just extra typing, though—the normalize hook will
convert that to "backbone" right at the beginning of the import process,
and from then on the two styles really are exactly identical. I don't think
it could cause any portability problems.
Most of the time it'll work because that file structure is common enough.
> That will eventually force everyone to use this file structure if they want
> to reuse modules that mix these patterns.
>
I don't think this could possibly happen under the proposal, because
relative module names aren't URLs.
The pipeline is
normalize -> resolve -> fetch -> translate -> link
and relative module names are processed at the first step, normalize. This
is before the resolve step, which figures out the URL.
-j
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