Another paren-free gotcha

Brendan Eich brendan at mozilla.com
Wed Sep 28 17:53:12 PDT 2011


On Sep 28, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Peter van der Zee wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Douglas Crockford
> <douglas at crockford.com> wrote:
>> On 11:59 AM, Waldemar Horwat wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thinking about the implications of paren-free, I see additional potential
>>> trouble spots in addition to the one I mentioned in the meeting yesterday:
> 
> These kind of potential confusions raise a red flag for me.

Not sure about. Waldemar's examples can bite plain old expression-statement refactoring too. Is this really a fatal flaw of paren-free, or more a problem with C-family expression-statement syntax?

If ASI is the culprit to focus on, I can work harder on ASI in relation to paren-free. I do not want to hack on paren-free by itself. It's quite simple and not in need of "patching".

/be



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