Hay, I've not read all of the spec, and I've implemented much of it. :P

Joe

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Domenic Denicola <d at domenic.me> wrote:

>  Not all browsers have implemented the spec yet. But you should read the
> spec before proposing changes to it!
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> *From:* Alexander Jones [mailto:alex at weej.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2015 15:16
> *To:* Domenic Denicola
> *Cc:* Andrea Giammarchi; Kevin Smith; es-discuss at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: let function
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> That's not what I see, in strict mode at least, which I assume most people
> consider de facto by now!
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> From V8:
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>     SyntaxError: In strict mode code, functions can only be declared at
> top level or immediately within another function.
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> Similar error from SpiderMonkey.
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> On Thursday, May 14, 2015, Domenic Denicola <d at domenic.me> wrote:
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>  They can, in fact, be scoped in a for loop.
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> *From:* es-discuss [mailto:es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org] *On Behalf Of *Andrea
> Giammarchi
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2015 14:53
> *To:* Kevin Smith
> *Cc:* es-discuss at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: let function
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> I guess 'cause that cannot be scoped, let's say in a for loop ... but
> yeah, I think that's not the most needed thing in the language right now,
> yet another shortcut with double reserved words one after the other
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> Regards
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> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Kevin Smith <zenparsing at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Why not use a function declaration instead?
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> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:37 PM Alexander Jones <alex at weej.com> wrote:
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>  Propose adding support for
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>     let function foo() {};
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> which would have the equivalence of:
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>     let foo = function foo() {};
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> The idea is to support the normal scoping of let, but without forcing you
> to repeat yourself when naming the function, whilst still having the
> function's name property be set.
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> This would trivially extend to const and var. Also, possibly class.
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> Thanks
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Hay, I've not read all of the spec, and I've implemented much of it. :P