Update on ES3.1 block scoped function declarations

[Mark S. Miller]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <
Allen.Wirfs-Brock at microsoft.com> wrote:

>  I see, yes there is a potential eval tax.  If I thought this was really a
> concern (and as you say, we already have the issue for catch and such) I'd
> be more inclined to fiddling with the scoping rule of eval rather than
> discarding lexically scoped consts.  BTW, I think many of the use cases for
> such const are more in support of code generators then actual end user
> programming.
>
Could you explain the "eval tax" issue you guys are concerned about? I don't
get it. Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
--MarkM
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