On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jan 3, 2012, at 1:29 AM, Andreas Rossberg wrote: > >> ... > > >> For multi-part scripts we need a way to switch the >> _proper_ top-level into extended mode. Or should I not be able to >> write (the relevant bits of) a multi-part script in extended mode at >> all? > > The proposal may have been unclear on this point: the top level would allow > as much new syntax and semantics as can be tolerated backwards-compatibly. > The hard cases are let, lexical scope in the free-variables-are-errors sense > Dave described (extant globals at start of module body are imported), and any > runtime shifts we want (completion reform, typeof null).
I suspect there will also be issue related to legacy function declarations within blocks. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
