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[David Flanagan]

On 11/16/11 11:30 PM, David Herman wrote:
> <|
>
> On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:24 PM, David Herman <dherman at mozilla.com 
>> <mailto:dherman at mozilla.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Someone who shall remain nameless shot this down when I floated
>>     it privately. But I just have to throw this out there, because I
>>     kind of can't stop myself falling in love with it...
>>
>>     We used to have this (mis-)feature for dynamically extending
>>     scope chains, and despite being ill-conceived, it did have this
>>     elegant syntax spelled "with." In ES5 strict, we banned that
>>     feature, and it's not coming back for ES6, or ever.
>>
>>     Now we want a (good) feature for dynamically extending prototype
>>     chains. And here's this old keyword, just lying around unused...
>>
>>        obj with { foo: 12 } with { bar: 13 } with { baz: 17 }
>>
>>
>> I don't get it yet. What do you mean by "dynamically extending 
>> prototype chains"? What does the above expression do and evaluate to?
>>
I was confused by the "extending prototype chains" too, because the word 
'with' made me think that you were proposing to replace .{ instead of 
replacing <|.

I completely understand the temptation to reuse the keyword, however.  
We all want redemption in the end!

     David


>>
>>     So? Who's with me?
>>
>>     Dave
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>> -- 
>>     Cheers,
>>     --MarkM
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