Array comprehension syntax

[Erik Arvidsson]

That should throw a syntax error since it uses 'in' instead of 'of'.

Other than that I'm in favor of proposal 5 (for (for | if)*).

If we go with the current ES6 draft and you used 'of' instead of 'in'
it would have been a syntax error.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Jason Orendorff
<jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
> <allen at wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
>> actually what I meant to say was that personal preference for ES6 comprehensions, in increasing complexity order is:
>>   1) [a non-starter alternative]
>>   2) a single for clause followed by a single optional if clause
>>   3) one or more for clauses followed by a single optional if clause (what is in the current draft)
>>   4) a sequence where each element consists of a for clause and an optional if clause
>
> We disagree on what notion of complexity is important here.
>
> The amount of implementation complexity we're talking about here is
> peanuts. I can implement all the options we've discussed by lunchtime.
> It's just not an issue.  I can fit all the proposals in a tweet using
> a little BNF:
>
>     1. nothing  2. for if?  3. for+ if?  4. (for if?)*
>     5. for (for|if)*  6. (for|if|let)*
>
> (I include your proposal 4 for completeness, but no one has really
> proposed that.  5 is Python and 6 is Haskell--the two proposals I
> favor.)
>
> But what is actually at issue here is how JS should treat the
> developer who writes this:
>
>     books = [book  for author in authors
>                      if author.home_state == 'TN'
>                        for book in author.books()];
>
> And the options here are (1) run it; (2) throw a SyntaxError.  If it
> throws, the developer will be surprised.  They will have to rephrase
> their thought to fit our syntactic whims; and they will have to add a
> rule to their mental model of the language.  I claim this is the
> notion of complexity we should worry about.
>
> -j
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erik