Yeah, I meant "references", not "pointers"... My bad.
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Ron Buckton <ron.buck...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: es-discuss <es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org> On Behalf Of Isiah
>> Meadows
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 3:21 PM
>> To: Michael J. Ryan <track...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>
>> Subject: Re: Pointers
>>
>> And even if we *could* get pointers into JS, I'd *strongly* not want it to be
>> like what's proposed here. Instead, I'd prefer an object encapsulating a
>> reference to a variable, something like this (although engines could avoid
>> the
>> ceremony of closures here):
>>
>> ```js
>> let foo = 1;
>>
>> func(ref foo, bar)
>> // Equivalent to:
>> func({deref: () => foo, set: v => foo = v}, bar)
>>
>> function func(ref foo, bar) {
>> foo += 2
>> }
>>
>> // Equivalent to:
>> function func(foo) {
>> foo.set(foo.deref() + 2)
>> }
>> ```
>
> I put together a strawman for this last year at
> https://github.com/rbuckton/proposal-refs, but I haven't had much time to
> work on it.
>
> Ron
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