return when desugaring to closures

[Brendan Eich]

On Oct 15, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Waldemar Horwat wrote:

> There is no such thing as a "let expression".

Let expressions in JS1.7 (Firefox 2+), based on the ES4 proposal. ES3- 
ish grammar:

LetExpression :
       let ( VariableDeclarationList ) [lookahead ∉ {{}]  
AssignmentExpression

produced from PrimaryExpression.


> It's mandatory because the grammar and semicolon insertion rules say  
> so.  Btw, to properly terminate a lambda expression you'd need *two*  
> semicolons.  Here's why one would be insufficient:
>
> f = lambda(x) x;
> (a + b) && c;
>
> would parse the body of the lambda as the expression "x;", the "(a +  
> b)" as an argument to the lambda, and the rest as applying to the  
> result of calling the lambda.  What you'd want to write instead  
> would be:
>
> f = lambda(x) x;;

Expression closures in JS1.8 (Firefox 3+) do not have this problem.  
Using ES3's notation:

FunctionDeclaration :
       function Identifier ( FormalParameterListopt ) FunctionBody
FunctionExpression :
       function Identifieropt ( FormalParameterListopt ) FunctionBody
FormalParameterList :
       Identifier
       FormalParameterList , Identifier
FunctionBody :
       { SourceElements }
       [lookahead ∉ {{}] AssignmentExpression

/be
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