On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> wrote: > From: es-discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Matthew Robb > <[email protected]> > >> Transpile aside, I don't want that performance concern. Most of the time I >> want a real solid reference and the only way to get it as the spec stands is >> to import something and then cache it locally. Isn't that kind of crazy? > > I don't know what performance concern you're referring to (probably a > transpiler-only thing). But yes, I agree that it's crazy that you can't get > solid references that you control (instead of aliasing bindings that the > model author controls) without such shenanigans. I brought up that point [a > long time ago](http://esdiscuss.org/topic/import-and-aliasing-bindings), and > was told that we wanted to follow Scheme and ML instead of existing JS module > systems. Which goes back to my "frankly confounding" comment from earlier...
The answer you actually got when you asked this from Andreas expresses it very nicely: http://esdiscuss.org/topic/import-and-aliasing-bindings#content-1 Scheme and ML were only brought up when _you_ asked about other language's module systems. Sam _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
