May 24-26 rough meeting notes

[Jorge]

On 27/05/2011, at 11:36, Jorge wrote:
> On 27/05/2011, at 11:01, Brendan Eich wrote:
>> On May 26, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Waldemar wrote:
>> 
>>> Arrow Function/Block:
>>> function f() {
>>> a.forEach({| | return 3});
>>> }
>>> The return will return out of f.  Note also that the implementation of forEach could have a try-finally statement that catches and revokes the return.  This kind of cross-function return catching is new.
>> 
>> And some on TC39 <3 this "Tennent sequel" feature, to quote dherman. Others cited the new as potentially too much for average users to grok. No one hated it overtly.
> 
> It's not that "it's too much to grok", it's that as I like that (blocks) syntax so much, I'd prefer to use it for (shorter) functions (syntax) instead of the (ugly, extraneous, imho) "arrow syntax proposal", not for blocks.
> 
> Also, I wonder if in order to make blocks first class, do we need any new syntax ?
> 
> function f() {
> a.forEach({ return 3 });
> }
> 
> ?

I have edited (a copy of) the arrow_function_syntax strawman wiki page, to see side-by-side the current function syntax, the arrow syntax and the blocks (applied to functions) syntax:

<http://jorgechamorro.com/blocks.html>
-- 
Jorge.