On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Andrew Fedoniouk <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Quite often I see constructions like this:
>
> foo({one:1,two:2});
>
> so call of function with single parameter - object literal.
> Idiom named "Poor man named arguments passing"
>
> Idea is to extend existing JS/ES syntax calls to support
> simple form of the call above:
>
> foo {one:1,two:2 };
>
> Semi-formally that syntax looks like:
>
> function-call:
> <name-token> '(' <parameter-list> ')' // existing form
> <name-token> <object-literal> // proposal
>
Existing grammar:
CallExpression Arguments
Arguments :
( )
( ArgumentList )
To add ObjectLiteral, at very least the grammar would need to have a
NoLineTerminator between CallExpression and Arguments, which breaks extant
code.
Rick
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