On Nov 18, 2013 7:17 AM, "Brian Di Palma" <off...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong David but module import/exports are not > dynamic which allows tooling/IDEs to be more intelligent and > programmers to easily understand what dependencies a module > has/provides?
Yes, that's correct, if I guess correctly at what you mean by dynamic. Sam > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:30 AM, David Herman <dher...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2013, at 3:32 AM, John Barton <johnjbar...@google.com> wrote: > > > >> Could someone help me understand why two goals for parsing JS is a good thing? > > > > Hm, it sounds like you've assumed a conclusion already. Let me try to explain anyway. > > > > Scripts are for synchronous loading and evaluation; modules are for asynchronous loading and evaluation. The former is not allowed to import, which triggers I/O. The latter is allowed to import. There was always going to have to be a syntactic split. > > > > But there's more. I'll be explaining at this week's TC39 meeting some more details about the intended model for browser integration. In short, declarative code based on modules will use the <module> tag (or <script type="module">, which will mean the same thing and allows polyfilling today). This is better than <script async>, which was a hopeless idea. This also works beautifully for fulfilling the promise of 1JS: a new, better initial environment in which to run top-level application code without requiring versioning. > > > > <module> > > var x = 12; // local to this module, not exported on global object > > import $ from "jquery"; // asynchronous dependency, NBD > > '$' in this // nope, because all globals are scoped to this module > > let y = 13; // yep, let works great because modules are strict > > </module> > > > > Same number of characters as <script>, better semantics, better global environment, better language. > > > > If you're not excited about ES6 yet, get excited. :) > > > > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > > es-discuss mailing list > > es-discuss@mozilla.org > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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