On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Robb <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just think the idea of 1JS has already been compromised and really what > we have is a spec that supports two almost-entirely different sets of > expectations. The maintenance of keeping them of equal priority seems like > it will only get worse over time. The `"use strict"` pragma is already sort > of an opt-in to the new mode. > Only in non-strict Script ( https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-ecmascript-language-scripts-and-modules) sense. Modules ( https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-modules) are strict-by-default. > To me the more graceful path forward is the one where the world as people > know it stays the same but then there is an opt-in path for moving to the > supersets of the future. > Unnecessary when nothing about the future directly changes the extant works of the past. Rick > Dong this once after having considered many of the issues of the old model > seems reasonable to me specially with the amount of buy in people are doing > on transpilers and even buy in on other languages/runtimes such as dart. > > > > - Matthew Robb > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Matthew Robb wrote: >> >>> I don't see why they have to? Traceur should be used as a build time >>> tool that ultimately runs in legacy mode. Only REAL modern ES6 module >>> implementations would run in this other world. Basically .es files today >>> would be transpiled into .js files. >>> >> >> I doubt people will do any such thing. We can have more suffixes (I was >> against .js2 in particular -- that particularly confusing proposal was why >> I unleashed the Nope-topus), but if people can adapt their existing >> practices with AMD/Require/CommonJS modules and use just .js, I bet they >> will. >> >> Tools will have to read metadata, tea-leaves, and etheric winds to keep >> up. Same as ever. >> >> /be >> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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