I am still a big fun of what made JS easy to use, develop, learn since born ... the ability to include a script in a HTML page and run it without being forced of using different tools in the middle before results or even requiring a web server at all.
I remember once I've read that scripting was cool 'cause no time wasted compiling ... those days are gone in modern JS development. br On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Alex Russell <a...@dojotoolkit.org> wrote: > On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:02 AM, Andrea Giammarchi < > andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > "use strict" is removed from code by default ... this is where it goes > once > > minified: nowhere. > > > > I would rather force a minifier explicitly to remove it rather than force > > it to keep it for ES5 ... also ES5 is not use strict so I don't get this > > Closure Compiler choice. > > > > I don't see minified code with "use strict" that often > > All this suggests is that we need to improve the state of play in tools. > Sounds doable. > > That said, you've gotten good answers that you don't like. It happens, and > it's better than not getting an answer or getting a bad one. > > The polyfill you're working on can be accomplished other ways ( > http://code.google.com/p/traceur-compiler/). There's always a tax for > emulating the new thing with the old, and this case that's caller. More to > the point, it's a polyfill; once ES6 lands in engines, class syntax will > give you super() for free, complete with whatever optimizations make sense. > > If you have performance issues, I recommend what everyone else here has: > write benchmarks and file bugs. Beyond that, I think this horse is both > dead and beaten. > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > > >> Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > >> > >>> Said that, I would rather force removal of "use strict" 'cause if there > >>> is explicit desire from the developer. Isn't it? > >>> > >> > >> What do you mean? "use strict" is not going away. It is used by some > >> developers. I had a show of hands at JSConf.au, definitely a minority > but > >> significant. > >> > >> You are barking up the wrong tree. And Angus's abuses of 'with' are > >> unjustified. Yes, "be water". Yes, masters may break rules students must > >> follow. None of that philosophizing justifies 'with' abusage or > >> repealing/undoing "use strict". > >> > >> /be > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > es-discuss mailing list > > es-discuss@mozilla.org > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -- > Alex Russell > slightly...@google.com > slightly...@chromium.org > a...@dojotoolkit.org BE03 E88D EABB 2116 CC49 8259 CF78 E242 59C3 9723 > >
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