On Jan 4, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jan 4, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Herby Vojčík wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> as I already posted in the parallel thread, there is that strawman called >> "do expression" by dherman that does just that. >> >> I feel like crying when I see how powerful data constructs could be if not >> hampered by "possible to parse as code block" ambiguity. > > Yes, I have felt like crying too -- I did some work (see > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-June/015568.html)
I should have also linked: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:block_vs_object_literal Of course, http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:do_expressions is much simpler. Neither addresses the empty-block/object issue by trying to evaluate {} as an object literal where today it's a block statement. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
