Revenge of the double-curly [Was: return when desugaring to closures]

[P T Withington]

On 2008-10-10, at 11:55EDT, Brendan Eich wrote:

> On Oct 10, 2008, at 5:44 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> On 2008-10-10, at 02:29EDT, Brendan Eich wrote:
>>
>>> An agreement from TC39 this past spring was that function  
>>> definitions
>>> directly nested in blocks, not specified by ES3, defined block-local
>>> (let) bindings.
>>
>> Holy smokes.  Does that mean we are all going to be writing
>>
>>  function ... () {{
>>    ...
>>  }}
>>
>> to get 'normal' scoping of function body declarations???
>
> No. My words were unclear, sorry. I wrote "defined block-local (let)  
> bindings" meaning the functions defined in blocks bound *their own  
> names* only in the containing  block, not in the variable object.

Maybe _I_ am trying to be too clever.  Is it not the case (per cited  
agreement) that:

   function foo () {{
     function bar () {...}
   }}

is sugar for:

   function foo () {
     let bar = function () {...}
   }

whereas:

   function foo () {
     function bar () {...}
   }

is sugar for:

   function foo () {
     var bar = function () {...}
   }

?  If so, perhaps you can see how I might imagine that:

   function foo () {{
     var bar = ...;
   }}

might be sugar for:

   function foo () {
     let bar = ...;
   }

Just playing devil's advocate.