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Henri Biestro commented on JEXL-367: ------------------------------------ I'm sorry if my previous statement came out too strong; we are probably all in agreement. Again, as much as can be, I'll try and keep an opened mind when syntactic choices are made to be close (or identical) to JS. I don't hold any grudges against JS - besides the fact that it is a much too powerful language for scripting :) (imho: prototypes, this, classes are above scripting complexity necessities). [~hussachai] What are your other added features in your fork? (does not seem to be on GitHub, is it?). About JS, just realised that [Rhino|https://github.com/mozilla/rhino] is still alive ! ;) > Deprecate -> and support => > --------------------------- > > Key: JEXL-367 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-367 > Project: Commons JEXL > Issue Type: Wish > Affects Versions: 3.2.1 > Reporter: Hussachai Puripunpinyo > Assignee: Henri Biestro > Priority: Major > > The JEXL code surprisingly looks a lot like Javascript. I think this change > is a good transition for folks to update the code, and it's pretty fine if > they can tolerate using the deprecate syntax and don't mind seeing a warning > log pop up every time. > I'd like to propose supporting => and deprecate ->. > The reasons are > - JavaScript becomes very popular and many people are familiar with it. > - JEXL is more like for a quick short script. In many scenarios, the target > audiences are not a programer. They often mistake a language as a JavaScript > (from my experience). > - JEXL syntax already looks a lot like JavaScript > -- var for variable declaration (Java added in Java 10, but JavaScript > supports this from the beginning) > -- The function keyword > -- Implicit type coercion > -- Ternary operator > The proposed change. > * Support => in addition to -> > * Deprecate -> and show a warning log when it's used. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.7#820007)