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

[Brendan Eich]

On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:58 AM, P T Withington wrote:

> ?  If so, perhaps you can see how I might imagine that:
>
>   function foo () {{
>     var bar = ...;
>   }}
>
> might be sugar for:
>
>   function foo () {
>     let bar = ...;
>   }

Nope, not compatible and not what I meant.

Just the function's name is let-bound (block-scoped) for a function  
defined directly in a block.

/be