On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:10 PM, Breton Slivka wrote:
> In the case of let statements, as I understand it, the current
> proposal, and how let works in firefox is that
>
> let (x = 2, y = x) {
> print(y);
> }
>
> "desugars" to
>
> {
> let x = 2, y = x;
> print(y);
> }
No, because in the latter, as for var in a program or function body,
let x is hoisted to the top of the block, so y's initializer x is not
the value of the outer x, but the undefined initial value of the
hoisted inner x.
So let statements really are different from let declarations in blocks.
New let forms may look spooky or useful, depending on your language
background. Schemers tend not to be spooked; folks who started with
JS, Java, C++ or C may bolt ;-).
/be
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