First, that's something you could enforce in a linter. Second, just as a heads up, `if`/`else` as an expression is actually pretty common - consider Ruby as one example of this in a very procedural language. -----
Isiah Meadows [email protected] Looking for web consulting? Or a new website? Send me an email and we can get started. www.isiahmeadows.com On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 3:29 AM, Naveen Chawla <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, and also, I don't like the idea of allowing if-elses to be turned into > expressions. That's what ternaries are for. Again, this harms readability > and is another surface area for the "accidental code after last executed > statement" bug I mentioned in my last post. > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 at 13:53 Naveen Chawla <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Also, I don't find it very readable/clear when reading it in code. Maybe >> I'm missing the whole point, but the comma operator forces you to wrap each >> non-expression language construct (e.g. for loops) into a function, which >> makes the expression itself clearer (in my opinion) than a do-expression. >> >> Also, it's very easy to accidentally add code after the last statement, >> breaking the code and hence causing bugs! >> This is not as much the case with the comma operator, since you have to >> add a comma, which is not "normal" in ordinary function code vs a semicolon) >> >> Altogether, I'd be happier if it wasn't introduced. >> >> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 at 13:29 Naveen Chawla <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not necessarily in favour of the proposal. I think the comma operator >>> feature in current javascript already covers at least some of the use cases. >>> >>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 at 01:58 Peter Jaszkowiak <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions >>>> >>>> It appears that the do-expressions proposal, which has a high amount of >>>> interest, is currently inactive. There haven't been any contributions from >>>> @dherman since September. >>>> >>>> This concerns me because the proposal is a hugely simplifying feature, >>>> which would make the language much more concise. >>>> >>>> Currently there are multiple instances of duplicate issues and the lack >>>> of input means the proposal is going nowhere. >>>> >>>> What's going on? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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
