arrow function syntax simplified

[Axel Rauschmayer]

AFAIKT, Crockford is referring to an older version of the proposal.


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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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On 01.04.2012, at 10:30, Dmitry Soshnikov <dmitry.soshnikov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, wait, just have read Crock's article on => functions. A Python's style of passing manual `this'? That's interesting (why it's not specified on the wiki? where Crockford took it from? did you discuss it in a close ECMA meeting?). Inconsistent again with other functions.
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> So, let's see, overall we have .. 6 types of functions in JS, and all have their own specific features. That's again interesting, if won't cause confusion.
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> Dmitry
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> On Apr 1, 2012, at 1:13 AM, Dmitry Soshnikov wrote:
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>> On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:
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>>>>> Ah, good. But one can use the above (pseudo-)desugaring to predict the behavior of arrow functions, right? That is, there is no observable difference.
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>>>> There is, again, the difference in terms of delegation to the target's [[Construct]] in case of a bound function, see the spec ("bound" per ES5, of course, since, as Brendan notices, it's not just a syntactic sugar, but a new special type of functions).
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>>> OK. Ignoring [[Construct]] and .prototype, any other differences?
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>> Well, "ES5-bounds" also do not have `prototype' property, but delegate to the target's `prototype'. However, yes, there is the (main) difference in respect of supporting TCP (if I understand correctly, since had no time to follow the complete thread) -- return and break/continue jumps to the parent frame instead of working with the function itself.
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>> Lexical `this' is the only similar thing to bound functions, so we should not call => functions as synonym to bound functions. You may say, => function _as well as_ a bound captures `this' lexically, but in contrast with it, it has other features.  In my later analysis, I'll specify them as a new type of functions --  AF (Arrow Function) -- in addition to FE, FD, NFE, BF, etc., with many own features, but not just a syntactic sugar -- neither for FE, nor for BF.
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>> Dmitry
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