I believe that would be interoperable as long as each such function is only declared and used within a single block. Multiple declarations with the same function name in separate blocks wouldn't be interoperable among all browsers.
Allen > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Day [mailto:mike...@yeslogic.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:48 PM > To: Brendan Eich > Cc: ES-Discuss; Allen Wirfs-Brock > Subject: Re: Function declarations as statements > > Hi Brendan and Allen, > > Thanks for the pointers. > > > So for Harmony, we are reclaiming function in block (must be a direct child > > of > a braced block) to bind a block-local name on block entry (so hoisting lives, > but > only to top of block -- so you can't emulate with var f = function ...). > > If we implemented this behaviour now, I think that would be sufficient to make > JQuery and Raphaël work. Here is an example from JQuery that is giving us > trouble: > > if (condition) { > var val, props, ... ; > > function getWH() { ... this is the function ... } > > if ( elem.offsetWidth !== 0 ) { > getWH(); > } else { > jQuery.swap( elem, props, getWH ); > } > > return Math.max(0, Math.round(val)); } > > The getWH() function is declared in the block and only used in the block, so > if we > hoisted the definition to the top of the block there would not be any problems > with this usage. > > Best regards, > > Michael > > -- > Print XML with Prince! > http://www.princexml.com _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
