Uninteresting parameters

[Dean Landolt]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Sean Eagan wrote:
>
> > I agree, but it seems like holes in parameter lists would be no more
> > rare than holes in destructuring lists...
> >
> > [a, , c] = arr;
>
> Could be.
>
>
> > ...so it seems strange to add it to one but not the other.
>
> Destructuring uses the same grammar as "structuring", i.e. ObjectLiteral
> and ArrayLiteral. We can and are making post-parse ("Supplemental Syntax")
> restrictions, so we could forbid holes, but it's more work.
>
> Contrast to parameter lists where adding holes is more work.
>
> Is more work for the spec the good to optimize? For such truly marginal
> cases, I think so.
>


Out of curiosity is there any reason to keep holes the holes around in
ObjectLiteral and ArrayLiteral? Is there a real usecase (other than rare and
trivial minification wins)? Sure, it would be a breaking syntax change but
statically detectable and correctable. And it would wipe out a source of
bugs rather than doubling down.
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