Arrows Not Primary?

Kevin Smith khs4473 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 06:15:02 PDT 2012


Never mind - it's to prevent grammatical ambiguity in the concise form.
 Sorry for the noise.

Kevin

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Kevin Smith <khs4473 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at the July 8 Draft, I notice that arrow functions are produced by
> AssignmentExpression, not PrimaryExpression (as function expressions are).
>  Why is that?  Is it to limit the operators that can be applied to them?
>
> When descent parsing, we have to drill down into primary expression to
> parse the "maybe-paren-expresion", so it's more straightforward to parse
> arrows there.
>
> Thanks!
> Kevin
>
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