Modules Question

[Mark S. Miller]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:06 AM, David Herman <dherman at mozilla.com> wrote:

> We would probably make it a contextual keyword so you could still use it in
> non-expression contexts (e.g., to the right of '.' and left of ':' in object
> literals), but unless we played some clever tricks, which I'm not sure would
> be worth it, using it as an identifier would be a syntax error. Harmony will
> be opt-in, though, so this won't cause existing code to break unless the
> author explicitly changes the language; at which point they would get an
> early error and have the opportunity to rename the identifiers.
>

Nit: All identifiers including all keywords can already be used after a '.'
or before a ':' in object literals.




>
> Dave
>
> On Dec 28, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Kevin Smith wrote:
>
> > In the modules strawman, "module" is a keyword, right?  Will code that
> uses "module" as an identifier most likely cause a syntax error?
> >
> > Thanks!
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    --MarkM
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