Ron: Very interesting, in particular, the function arguments by reference aspect. Thanks.
Claude -----Original Message----- From: Ron Buckton <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 7:58 PM To: Isiah Meadows <[email protected]>; Michael J. Ryan <[email protected]> Cc: es-discuss <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Pointers > -----Original Message----- > From: es-discuss <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Isiah > Meadows > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 3:21 PM > To: Michael J. Ryan <[email protected]> > Cc: es-discuss <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Pointers > > And even if we *could* get pointers into JS, I'd *strongly* not want > it to be like what's proposed here. Instead, I'd prefer an object > encapsulating a reference to a variable, something like this (although > engines could avoid the ceremony of closures here): > > ```js > let foo = 1; > > func(ref foo, bar) > // Equivalent to: > func({deref: () => foo, set: v => foo = v}, bar) > > function func(ref foo, bar) { > foo += 2 > } > > // Equivalent to: > function func(foo) { > foo.set(foo.deref() + 2) > } > ``` I put together a strawman for this last year at https://github.com/rbuckton/proposal-refs, but I haven't had much time to work on it. Ron --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
