On 5/14/15, Alexander Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, thanks for explaining! What about the Temporal Dead Zone of let, > or const binding semantics, for those of us who are obsessive enough to > desire that kind of thing everywhere? > Let a constructive discussion about this proposal take place.
"The specification," can most reasonably be taken among programmers to mean "the latest version of specification" not "draft specification" or "proposal". Evangelists and standards geeks tend to miscall "draft" "specification" to the misfortunate effect that it misleads developers into believing that drafts are normative, final, etc. That's quite a bit worse than the abrasiveness and confusion seen here, but hopefully they can stop and a discussion can take place. http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-12 Because of these irreconcilable differences, the use of a FunctionDeclaration as a Statement results in code that is not reliably portable among implementations. It is recommended that ECMAScript implementations either disallow this usage of FunctionDeclaration or issue a warning when such a usage is encountered. The decision for such wording probably came from discussions and time constraints of getting ES5 done. The problem of FunctionDeclaration arose from implementations in JScript (see "[MS-ES3EX]" and language extensions in Spidermonkey and others. It progressed to misstatements in presentations and books. For more on this, see "Named function expressions demystified". > On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Bergi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Alexander Jones schrieb: >> > On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> They can, in fact, be scoped in a for loop. >> > >> >>> That's not what I see, in strict mode at least, which I assume most >>> people >>> consider de facto by now! >>> >>> From V8: >>> >>> SyntaxError: In strict mode code, functions can only be declared at >>> top >>> level or immediately within another function. >>> >> >> That's ES5. In ES6, function declarations are allowed in blocks - with >> the >> new block scope semantics. This was only possible as ES5 strict mode held >> that spot open so now it doesn't break anything :-) >> Yes, it will need a while until people get accustomed to that. >> >> Bergi >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > -- Garrett @xkit ChordCycles.com garretts.github.io personx.tumblr.com _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
