Has anyone found problems with weakmap?  My application uses it and it
works so far for me. It would be a serious problem if I couldn't use it.


On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> On Monday, December 31, 2012, Domenic Denicola wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:40:19 PM UTC-5, Rick Waldron wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, December 30, 2012, Tristan Slominski wrote:
>>>
>>>> RE: "No one should use --harmony today anyway.."
>>>>
>>>> I didn't see block-scoped "let" in es6-shim (pretty sure that's
>>>> impossible to shim without compilation, right?), so although you make a
>>>> good case for some things, availability of "let" and "WeakMap" is pretty
>>>> compelling in --harmony. For the things it can address/shim, es6-shim looks
>>>> like a good solution.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ugh
>>> Again, everything I said _still_ stands: the semantics of let are still
>>> incomplete (temporal dead zone discussion) and there is a serious backward
>>> compatible syntax issue yet to be resolved (let is not reserved and let
>>> destructuring is ambiguous with dereferenced let identifiers).
>>>
>>
>> +1. Additionally, `let` is not bound correctly in loop block heads with
>> --harmony; in ES6 for (let x; ;) or for (let x in y) will create a fresh
>> per-loop binding. This is a rather serious semantic change, so yet another
>> reason for Rick's warning.
>>
>> Also, just tested this because I had a suspicion it might be the case:
>> the semantics and syntax for `const` are quite borked, with no errors
>> thrown on assignment and no syntax errors upon uninitialized const
>> declarations (i.e. `const x;` instead of `const x = 10;`).
>>
>
> Nice find—are there bugs filed?
>
> Rick
>
>
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