I did some initial thinking about this and looked at Rust and Swift as prior art. I started something similar to what was being discussed but came across some edge cases as I went along.
https://github.com/stevekinney/ecmascript-enumerations Right now, it's just a draft of notes and thoughts, but I am working on a draft implementation with Sweet.js. On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:27 AM Thomas <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, is anyone working on a proposal for enum? Given the >> keyword has been reserved for so long, it seems a little strange for a >> proposal not to be floating around - unless I've missed something. >> > > Yes. It's an early draft, but I will get it onto github as soon as > possible. > > Rick > > >> > On 16 Dec 2015, at 10:31 PM, Coroutines <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Thomas <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> IMHO it'd be a huge mistake to not use symbols for enums. >> >> >> >> In my head this: >> >> >> >> const colours = enum { >> >> Red, >> >> Yellow, >> >> Green, >> >> Blue >> >> } >> >> >> >> should 'desugar' to something like this in ES6: >> >> >> >> const colours = { >> >> Red: Symbol('Red'), >> >> Yellow: Symbol('Yellow'), >> >> Green: Symbol('Green'), >> >> Blue: Symbol('Blue') >> >> } >> >> >> >> Thomas >> > >> > This person gets it. +1 :-) >> > _______________________________________________ >> > es-discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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