On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > > [Good point about LL(∞) snipped.] > >> * To give you an idea of how important parsing is, the 280 North folk once >> told me that parsing made up 25% of the load time for 280 Slides. > > Ollie, was that with browser-side Objective-J compilation, or with the server > translating and feeding the Obj-J-lowered-to-JS code to the browser?
I believe it was with the browser being passed preprocessed source, but i'll harass them to find out. > I have polled audiences at talks in the last year about shorter function > syntax, see first two links at http://brendaneich.com/presentations/. Results > mainly for fun but somewhat informative (to me at any rate) were not > resoundingly in favor of a new and much shorter keyword to use instead of > function. > > This was before > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:shorter_function_syntax was > proposed, so I didn't ask the audiences to clap for its # syntax. > > People like the expression-closure idea, although syntax needs to be hammered > out. See > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/new_in_javascript_1.8#Expression_closures_%28Merge_into_own_page.2fsection%29 I personally am not too fussed about the reduced typing -- if people really wanted reduced typing we could simply adopt "\" which seems to be the common symbol used for a function. > > /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
