On 21 August 2013 15:18, Peter van der Zee <[email protected]> wrote: > Can somebody (private mail is okay) please clarify this for me? It looks me > like there's a proposal to introduce `@@` syntax to support something that's > forbidden in most es6 code anyways (`with`)? Or does it have other use > cases? Where can I read more about this?
It's a proposed backwards compatibility thing to work around the problem that uses of 'with' in the wild are not robust against extensions of standard objects, see Section 4.3 of the July 23 meeting notes: https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2013-07/july-23.md Unfortunately, many people still use 'with', and we can't break the web. (The @@-syntax is just a placeholder we got into the habit of using to denote predefined symbols.) /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
