OK this was rough/quick malformed answer ... just realizing it! Overall, I wasn't complaining about fat arrow and I understand it made through ES6, I just honestly still don't quite get it, and probably ever will, but it was my fault to bring it back as off-topic matter for this thread.
Apologies for the rushed email, my only reasonable point was about not trusting blindly RegExp searches over repositories, somethng most of us know, some lurker might still not consider. Best Regards On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < [email protected]> wrote: > I didn't ask for anything indeed, I was rather pointing out your RegExp > search was not so accurate. The rest, once again, I agree with David, > rationales or not. > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Andrea Giammarchi wrote: >> >>> FWIW, function [A-Za-z_] includes `var expr = function expr() {}` or >>> `{expr: function expr(){}}` both quite common patterns (the first one when >>> you want to be able to debug the name of the function but due inline, later >>> on, features detection, the former might change) >>> >> Sure, I wasn't giving the exact regexen required for distinguishing cases >> of NFEs from FDs, if you get my abbreviations :-). >> >> >> Still I agree with David and asked again indeed what was the rationale >>> for arrow function that in my opinion solves only one very specific case >>> and nothing else ... came out in CoffeeScript that is the most common case >>> (I don't even understand why is that but ... hey, I don't CoffeeScript so I >>> believe that's OK) >>> >> >> Don't keep asking for rationales (a) that are already given, and (b) that >> you don't like (whether they have objective groundings -- this one does -- >> or not). We've been over this a zillion times. Didn't I already refer you >> to Kevin's quantitative analysis in the last thread from October? >> >> http://esdiscuss.org/topic/what-kind-of-problem-is-this- >> fat-arrow-feature-trying-to-solve#content-23 >> >> To rehash yet again, with an aggrieved tone, is just you being aggressive >> for no purpose. Please stop. Arrows are in ES6. Take a deep breath, get >> over it. >> >> /be >> > >
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