On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Calvin Metcalf <calvin.metc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> e.g. something like > https://gist.github.com/calvinmetcalf/9252f41bf6e3c8b4add7 > re: let { foo, bar } = import "library"; Ignoring the UnaryExpression ambiguity, what happens here: // library.js export const MAX_VALUE = 1023; // program.js let { MAX_VALUE } = import "library"; MAX_VALUE = 1; Rick > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian <ecmascr...@cscott.net> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Calvin Metcalf >> <calvin.metc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > They curly braces only look like destructuring if you keep the name the >> > same, when imported with a different name it's a slightly different >> syntax, >> > {oldname as newname} not {oldname: newname}, also as it currently stands >> >> I wish that the authors of the module spec would accept that "object >> as module" is something JS authors have gotten used to. It's rather >> nice that we don't have to add another "module" type to our mental >> model. I understand that the spec authors want to insert some magic >> mechanisms so that cyclic dependencies "just work", but that shouldn't >> require us to invalidate our simple mental model for the common case. >> >> Using destructuring syntax for imports would be a *good thing*. It >> builds on our existing understanding of JS constructs, instead of >> adding more gratuitously different things to learn. >> >> Similarly, I like the proposal floated here on es-discuss that reuses >> the same syntax for "default exports", so that the user doesn't have >> to know whether the module author did a default export of an single >> object, or used exports of named functions. The syntax should help >> the developer by papering over these differences so that destructuring >> and uses were consistent. Sure, there would be some subtle >> differences under-the-covers regarding the type of the module object >> and how the destructuring assignment was implemented, but the syntax >> shouldn't make the user stumble over these. >> --scott >> > > > > -- > -Calvin W. Metcalf > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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