I like the idea you're working from here, it seems to partially resemble header files. I'm not sure if a package keyword is needed though; couldn't you accomplish the same thing with just adding dictionary support and an optional alias parameter to import/export?
-Ryan Birmingham On 21 February 2017 at 12:27, Greg McLeod <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Back in 2015 I was working on a proposal for the "package" keyword, but > stopped prematurely as ES6/ES2015 had already been shipped. Since then I've > been occasionally iterating on it anyway in order to flesh out my ideas > with how it could fit with the new import syntax. I wanted to share with > the mailing list to get some feedback on it, as well as help facilitate > some of the discussion regarding future import syntax. > > Proposal can be found here: > https://gist.github.com/Cleod9/7f73017905d124210ec8 > > I should note that a lot of this is derived from an ActionScript to > JavaScript proof-of-concept transpiler I wrote a few years back. (Live > demo: https://as3js.org/demo/ ). I believe this type of package > syntax/behavior has already been possible since ES5, although I have yet to > find any proposals for the keyword that resemble that of battle-tested > languages like Java/C#. > > I think there are a lot of time-saving qualities that packages could > provide for bundled JS applications we have yet to explore, and it could > even open the door to a JS standard library. Even if this doesn't go > anywhere I certainly hope by making this proposal public it will be a > useful for reference for what is possible in the current state of affairs. > > Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! > > Greg > > P.S. Screen-cap of a potential IDE future with packages: > http://i.imgur.com/D5EGNUN.gifv > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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