I'm not sure if embedding this idea into the language will make future ideas about true pattern matching harder to implement or not. Destructuring assignments are pretty slow from what I've measured, and they still made it in, so I hardly see performance being a showstopper here.
On Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:18:22 PM CET Michael J. Ryan wrote: > The if condition doesn't need to be limited to instance of... > > catch (err if !isNaN(err.status)) > > Aside: entering code in a phone is hard... > > > `instanceof` doesn't work across realms (iframes, for example). If we > > introduced conditional catch blocks, I'd want a more reliable matching > > mechanism than instanceof. > > > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Zach Lym <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Firefox supports the following conditional `catch` syntax: > >> > >> try { > >> let result = await (); > >> } catch (e if e instanceof ErrorType) { > >> ... > >> } > >> > >> > >> This was originally implemented in Spidermonkey as part of an ES proposal > >> around 2000, but it was rejected for unknown reasons [0]. A 2012 email to > >> this list suggesting standardization of the syntax was passed over in favor > >> of waiting for a generic pattern matching facility [0][1]. Later > >> discussion suggests that the pattern matching proposal would have been very > >> slow [2]. A proposal for a Java-like type-based conditional was proposed in > >> 2016, but was criticized for lacking generality [2]. > >> > >> If the above summary is accurate, I would like to try to standardize the > >> vanilla syntax once again. It's imperative, general, and doesn't preclude > >> the use of any hypothetical pattern matching functionality. > >> > >> Javascript's control flow has improved dramatically in recent years: > >> promises got rid of callbacks, `async`/`await` clipped promise chains, and > >> classes make it easy to create custom Error objects that preserve > >> stacktraces. Conditional catch is the last bit of syntax needed to make JS > >> look like it was designed to handle asynchronous functions. > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> > >> -Zach Lym > >> > >> [0]: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/conditional-catch-clause#content-10 > >> [1]: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/conditional-catch > >> [2]: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/error-type-specific-try-catch-bl > >> ocks#content-14 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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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