On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Barton wrote: > >> >> >> It's pretty clear from NPM experience that a new suffix is not >> needed for out-of-line modules. Or are you suggesting that Node.js >> lacks tooling? I'm not offended, just trying to understand. >> >> >> What about the node experience helps? They have only one type of input, >> modules, ergo only one suffix. >> > > No, their non-module main programs are in files with names ending in .js. Their non-module main programs don't fail if you issue require(). > > > For NPM read AMD/require.js too. >> >> >> Ditto. >> > > No, <script src=foo.js> interops with AMD/require.js and the .js suffix is > used everywhere. Because it is js everywhere. Pick any file in an AMD/require.js system and you can parse it. I think you are on the right track here: 1JS needs only one file suffix. If we have two languages, we need to suffixes. jjb
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