On Jun 13, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Luke Hoban <lu...@microsoft.com> wrote: >>> From: Erik Arvidsson [mailto:erik.arvids...@gmail.com] >>> This was from back in the days when Google code search was still available >>> and the only hits we found were from test suites. > >>> On Jun 13, 2013 8:54 PM, "Brendan Eich" <bren...@mozilla.com> wrote: >>> We had some web crawling help, IIRC. We also figured we had time to test >>> and put it back, if needed. Did you find web content using it? > > We haven't done a run yet to look for content using this. Promising to hear > that Google code search didn't hit anything. I'll see if we can get some > data here.
Thanks. > >>>>> Was that an intentional breaking change? If so, why? >>> Yes, to simplify and tighten up grammar (and engines). We reckoned that >>> only testsuites counted on this. This was recorded in some meeting notes >>> but I'm not free to dig them up right now. > > Must have missed that discussion. Doesn't seem a big win for engines or the > grammar, as it reduces orthogonality in the grammar wrt variable declarations > (I believe this introduces the only place that "var x" is allowed but cannot > have an initializer?). Sure, but note the screwy one-declarator-only restriction. The semantics are too string out too in the existing specs prior to ES6. Inlining is better on both syntactic and semantic grounds. /be > > Luke _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
