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Henri Biestro commented on JEXL-367:
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I'm sorry if my previous statement came out too strong; we are probably all in
agreement.
Again, as much as can be, I'll try and keep an opened mind when syntactic
choices are made to be close (or identical) to JS. I don't hold any grudges
against JS - besides the fact that it is a much too powerful language for
scripting :) (imho: prototypes, this, classes are above scripting complexity
necessities).
[~hussachai] What are your other added features in your fork? (does not seem to
be on GitHub, is it?).
About JS, just realised that [Rhino|https://github.com/mozilla/rhino] is still
alive ! ;)
> Deprecate -> and support =>
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>
> Key: JEXL-367
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-367
> Project: Commons JEXL
> Issue Type: Wish
> Affects Versions: 3.2.1
> Reporter: Hussachai Puripunpinyo
> Assignee: Henri Biestro
> Priority: Major
>
> The JEXL code surprisingly looks a lot like Javascript. I think this change
> is a good transition for folks to update the code, and it's pretty fine if
> they can tolerate using the deprecate syntax and don't mind seeing a warning
> log pop up every time.
> I'd like to propose supporting => and deprecate ->.
> The reasons are
> - JavaScript becomes very popular and many people are familiar with it.
> - JEXL is more like for a quick short script. In many scenarios, the target
> audiences are not a programer. They often mistake a language as a JavaScript
> (from my experience).
> - JEXL syntax already looks a lot like JavaScript
> -- var for variable declaration (Java added in Java 10, but JavaScript
> supports this from the beginning)
> -- The function keyword
> -- Implicit type coercion
> -- Ternary operator
> The proposed change.
> * Support => in addition to ->
> * Deprecate -> and show a warning log when it's used.
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