arrow syntax unnecessary and the idea that "function" is too long
Kyle Simpson
getify at gmail.com
Mon May 9 02:02:06 PDT 2011
> Let's ignore popularity level for the moment, no other proposal has analog
> of `=>` which is a solution for a real problem:
>
> var self = this;
> function callback() {
> self....
> }
Maybe I missed something, but didn't Brendan's #-function proposal specify
lexical `this` binding, so that:
function foo() {
this.bar = "baz";
return #(x){ this.bar = x; };
}
Isn't that the spirit of what => would give us?
--Kyle
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