>> From: Erik Arvidsson [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> This was from back in the days when Google code search was still available 
>> and the only hits we found were from test suites.

>> On Jun 13, 2013 8:54 PM, "Brendan Eich" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>We had some web crawling help, IIRC. We also figured we had time to test and 
>>put it back, if needed. Did you find web content using it?

We haven't done a run yet to look for content using this.  Promising to hear 
that Google code search didn't hit anything.  I'll see if we can get some data 
here.

>>>>Was that an intentional breaking change?  If so, why?
>>Yes, to simplify and tighten up grammar (and engines). We reckoned that only 
>>testsuites counted on this. This was recorded in some meeting notes but I'm 
>>not free to dig them up right now.

Must have missed that discussion.  Doesn't seem a big win for engines or the 
grammar, as it reduces orthogonality in the grammar wrt variable declarations 
(I believe this introduces the only place that "var x" is allowed but cannot 
have an initializer?).

Luke  
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