On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:41 PM SaamBarati1 <saambara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Allen,
>
> What were the requirements for the global lexical scope? Is it written
> somewhere I can read? I came up empty after a quick search of
> esdiscuss.org.
>
> I think the whole point of ES6 lexical scoping is to limit scope to
> something you can read in a given file (or script, or block, or eval, or
> unit of JS code). Except, this breaks down for global top-level
> let/const/class. I argue that if you want these variables to be visible
> across JS programs, you should be using modules. The current spec makes
> this somewhat better than "var"s because these variables are no longer
> properties on the global object, but it punted and said that there is some
> magical lexical scope that wraps all programs. I think it's more in the
> spirit of lexical scoping to have these variables be limited to the program
> they're defined in (as if the entire program were wrapped in {}). And it's
> more in the spirit of ES6 to share code across programs using modules.
>
> I think it's not helpful for you to threaten that our opinions are less
> useful than a proof of impossibility when we are people who are both
> interested in the JavaScript language and interested in implementing it
> well. I've spent > 8 hours today implementing the "global lexical tier", so
> I think it's helpful to categorize my opinion as being slightly greater
> than "less useful than a proof that the spec is impossible to implement".
> Sometimes the best ideas are those that are negligent of "requirements".
>
Allen already provided links to discussions of record that lead to the
design in ES6. Those discussions capture the requirements and supporting
rationale. Here they are again:
https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2012-07/july-25.md#scoping-rules-for-global-lexical-declaration
https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2012-09/sept-19.md#global-scope-revisit
https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2013-11/nov-21.md#46-the-global-scope-contour
https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2014-11/nov-18.md#45-global-let-shadowing-of-global-object-properties
plus various es-discuss threads:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:http:%2F%2Fesdiscuss.org+global+let
<https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:http://esdiscuss.org+global+let>
Rick
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