Brendan Eich (2014-08-11T18:03:23.000Z)
domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-08-18T18:40:26.872Z)
Jason Orendorff wrote: > The original rationale was to make room for some more extensible > comprehension syntax for ES7, but is that really going to happen? Is > anyone currently interested in championing it? Dave is waylaid by illness so I'll quickly supply the links to his gists showing alternatives to the version of Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver in JS that used array comprehensions and generator expressions: https://github.com/dherman/sudoku (This is linked to from the meeting notes, under http://esdiscuss.org/notes/2014-07-30#4-7-revisit-comprehension-decision-from-last-meeting- of course.) Quoting a bit from Dave's github: > Several different ports of [Norvig's Sudoku solver](http://norvig.com/sudoku.html) to JavaScript, to elucidate differences between a few features: > > * the originally planned ES6 comprehensions; > * a possible ES7 proposal to generalize and supersede those comprehensions; > * combinator methods with arrow-function shorthand > > This is a cleaned up version of [this JavaScript port](http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/tests/ecma_6/Comprehensions/sudoku.js?raw=1).