domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-02-04T23:24:23.028Z)
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote: > It is as clear as those invisible braces in your model's input :-P. > > Come on, this is silly. Not silly. Can you suggest any on-line that most JS developers can understand discussing how these two forms differ? Here are some that describe them as equivalent: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_syntax#If_..._else - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kw1tezhk(v=vs.94).aspx - http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/16528/single-statement-if-block-braces-or-no - http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v7v91/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.vacpp7a.doc%2Flanguage%2Fref%2Fclrc08csor.htm - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173143.aspx and so on across multiple languages. Whether or not you think these forms should be different, programmers don't expect them to differ.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote: > John Lenz wrote: > >> In my model >> >> if (y) let x = 42 >> >> is equivalent to >> >> if (y) { >> let x = 42 >> } >> >> and it is clear "x" in "alert(x)" is 0; >> > > It is as clear as those invisible braces in your model's input :-P. > > Come on, this is silly. Not silly. Can you suggest any on-line that most JS developers can understand discussing how these two forms differ? Here are some that describe them as equivalent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_syntax#If_..._else http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kw1tezhk(v=vs.94).aspx http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/16528/single-statement-if-block-braces-or-no http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v7v91/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.vacpp7a.doc%2Flanguage%2Fref%2Fclrc08csor.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173143.aspx and so on across multiple languages. Whether or not you think these forms should be different, programmers don't expect them to differ. jjb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20140130/6f25eaf5/attachment-0001.html>