On Mar 15, 2015, at 9:43 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote:

> From: es-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kyle 
> Simpson
> 
>> Would it then be appropriate to explain that conceptually the binding would 
>> otherwise indeed be 2-way, but that the immutable/read-only nature of the 
>> bindings is what prevents an outside mutation of a module's internals? That 
>> is, without such bindings (and errors), a module could be changed from the 
>> outside?
> 
> I wouldn't really find this an appropriate explanation. That's kind of like 
> saying "this building's 6th story would be blue, but the 5-story nature of 
> its blueprints is what prevents you from accessing the 6th story." There just 
> isn't any 6th story at all. (Similarly, there just isn't any defined [[Set]] 
> behavior for module namespace objects at all. You could make up a plausible 
> one, like pretending it would modify the original module's bindings, and 
> write a revisionist history in which it was removed. But that's not really 
> how the spec works.)

the simple story:

imported bindings are all `const` bindings.  Think of them as if if they were 
written

```js
const import {a,b,c} from "foo";
```

Allen
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