The current trend is towards the https://github.com/nodejs/node-eps/pull/39 rewrite which does not have magic variables https://github.com/bmeck/node-eps/blob/b14276ca093fac9cbc3b72ff5433df35ae67fb59/002-es-modules.md#341-environment-variables
There are ideas about exposing the URL of the current ESM via something like https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aq_QjBUQTovj9aQZQrVzS7l1aiOs3ZNlk7wgNTUEMy0/edit#slide=id.g16ab11d101_0_22 On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Gil Tayar <[email protected]> wrote: > While reading Dominic Denicola's spec for dynamic import() at > https://github.com/tc39/proposal-dynamic-import, I read his rational for > not having import be a regular function, but rather a "syntactic form". The > idea is that import() needs to be "in the scope" of the current module, as > it needs to resolve the module path it is given relative to the current > module's. > Thinking about it some more, I thought it would be a pity for import to be > so "special", and asked myself whether there will be more features that > will need to be "module-aware" like import(). > > And there are! (I think...) - __filename and __dirname in NodeJS are > exactly such features. Actually, anything passed to the function wrapping > each NodeJS module is such a feature, but going over them, only __filename > and __dirname are not immediately related to the module mechanism. > > So my question is this (and it is specifically addressed to the NodeJS > implementors in the group): in NodeJS's implementation of ES6 modules, how > will __dirname and __filename be implemented? Will there still be a > function wrapper like in the current module implementation? Or will > __dirname and __filename be a "syntactic form" like import()? Or something > else? > > Thanks, > Gil Tayar > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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