On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:21 AM, Breton Slivka wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
(if we have
such, and we think we should, because the JS expression language is
too weak
as Jon Zeppieri colorfully asserts).
What would it take to make javascript's expressions rich enough to be
suitable for use as a lambda body, in opposition to blocks?
Pretty much what Yuh-Ruey Chen just posted: make loop and if
constructs expressions, a la Algol 68.
We talked about this at the Oslo meeting but more as a funny thought
experiment. No one was seriously proposing it then. It might be
possible to extend the grammar without much trouble, or "rotate" most
statement productions down into the top of the expression grammar.
But is it really worth the trouble? The C heritage, specifically most
JS hackers' training, militates against JS ever being used in the
large as an expression language.
/be
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