OK. Thankfully, with `super`, an important use case for a function referring to 
itself goes away (AFAIK, `super` keeps qooxdoo and Ember in non-strict mode, 
they need arguments.callee).

On Mar 16, 2013, at 23:12 , Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't overreact. My note was simply that we should not make arrows 
> strict by definition, and TC39 agreed. Among the "folk wisdom" reasons for 
> avoiding strict is to have arguments.callee, but of course NFEs should be 
> preferred in modern engines. But there's no arrow NFE form.
> 
> /be
> 
> Brandon Benvie wrote:
>> I think this is a better argument for introducing a new primitive for 
>> referencing the current function than for resurrecting arguments.
>> 
>> On Mar 16, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de 
>> <mailto:a...@rauschma.de>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Quoting Brendan Eich in [1]:
>>> 
>>>> arrows can't have intrinsic names (contrast with NFEs) so arguments.callee 
>>>> may be wanted, so arrows should not be strict-only.
>>> 
>>> Is this really an option? Sounds messy. Like a carrot to go back to 
>>> non-strict. I’d either allow arguments.callee in both modes. Or introduce a 
>>> new mechanism for a function to refer to itself. I thought that `arguments` 
>>> would disappear from JavaScript code over time so the latter alternative 
>>> seems better.
>>> 
>>> Axel
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/rwldrn/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2013-01/jan-30.md
>>> 
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