On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Why allow global scope to leak into a new module? > > That would require a tedious preamble for pretty much any bit of code you > want to write.
We agree, that's why we haven't tried to do this. > How about performing free variable checking as late as possible (i.e. just > before the module body executes), giving module dependencies a chance to > polyfill the global object if they so choose? This is the other major option -- it delays errors, potentially to much later, which can be painful when it happens too late to catch. That's why we haven't gone with it currently. Sam _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
