On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First, let's settle the hash over whether any desugaring without
extensions such as return-to-label, reformed lexical scope, tamed
this, banished arguments, etc. etc., trumps adding a new binding
form, to wit: let as block
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Garrett Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Lex Spoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First, let's settle the hash over whether any desugaring without
extensions
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JS has break from labeled statement, and continue to labeled loop bottom, a
la Java. These look trouble-free to me. Let me know if you see a hard case.
Thanks,
My question was whether the semantics of break and continue
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Yuh-Ruey Chen maian...@gmail.com wrote:
Jon Zeppieri wrote:
So, unless people want to expand the expression grammar significantly,
I think the expression body is a nonstarter.
How feasible would it be to make JS a pure expression language? That is,
can the
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
allen.wirfs-br...@microsoft.com wrote:
Just to clarify some speculation, the syntax I proposed ({||}) was
solely inspired by Smalltalk and tempered by the parsing realities
of a C-like syntax. Any similarities to Ruby constructs are probably
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Yuh-Ruey Chen maian...@gmail.com wrote:
Lex Spoon wrote:
On this list, the = form has so far been dismissed due to parsing
concerns. If that's the only reason, let me try and allay that worry
and put that horse back in the race. Scala also has a comma
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Yuh-Ruey Chen maian...@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately, { in expression context is taken by the object literal.
However, I think {{ would be feasible. That is, if the parser is in
the expression context, if it encounters two '{' tokens in a row, it
could treat
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