Interesting that that matters. I wouldn’t have thought so – given that modules export references, not values.
> On 20 Nov 2014, at 01:54, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Nov 19, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> OK, I take it the following wasn’t viable? >>> >>> that’s correct. We wanted the initialization of a function like: >>> export default function () {} >>> to be hoisted, just like: >>> export function f() {}; >> >> I suspect that that will confuse people: they will expect an anonymous >> function to be an expression, not a declaration (even more so because the >> operand of `export default` is usually an expression). Does hoisting even >> matter if the function doesn’t have a name? Is it worth it to introduce a >> completely new construct (an anonymous function declaration) just for >> `export default`? >> > > It can make a difference to circular modules that reference each other’s > default export. Hosted function iinitialization occurs before anything in > the module body is evaluated. export default expression isn’t initialized at > the point of the export declaration in the module body. > > Allen -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [email protected] rauschma.de
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