(Almost) everything is expression

[Brendan Eich]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:

>> which I thought could be turned into:
>> -----
>> var C = {
>>   let something;
>> 
>>   // |this| is the global object
>>   // ...
>> }
>> -----
>> 
>> But it does not have a return value and as noted in your second message, there seems to be an ambiguity with object initializers (not only visual but formal).
>> The 'do expressions' solution sounds like a good idea, but visually reminds of a do-while loop.
>> 
>> I don't really have a better proposition yet, but i'm looking forward to seeing any solution that will allow to replace all "(function(global){...})(this);"
> 
> 
> 
> IIRC: Block lambdas.
> 
> var C = {||   // note the double pipe
>   let something;
> 
>   // |this| is the global object
>   // ...
> 
>   return something;

That would attempt to return from the enclosing function or be an early error if there is no enclosing function.

Principle of equivalence, e ==== {|| e}(), applies.

/be