State of discussion - module / Import syntax

[David Herman]

Need just a bit more time to work through some module details work. I get back from Strange Loop mid-week and hope to really start tackling module work in earnest next week.

Dave

On Sep 24, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski <jussi.kalliokoski at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find this interesting as well, because I've been thinking of creating Yet Another(TM) module loader, which would be a standalone polyfill for Harmony modules.
> 
> While we're at it, a few questions I've been wondering:
>  * Is it possible to have modules that don't export *anything*? I suppose this would allow existing scripts like jQuery to work out of the box, if they tie their exports to the window object, then just do `import "jquery.js"` or `import * from "jquery.js"` if necessary.
>  * If there's a cross-compilation hook on the loader, does the dependency resolving happen before or after the compilation? Former is more efficient, but places constraints on the compile-to-JS languages.
>  * Is there a way to do async cross-compilation with the hooks? e.g. offload parsing and everything to a worker to keep the main thread responsive?
>  * Is it possible to import things to local scope? For example, is this a syntax error, and if not, what happens: `function x () { import y from x }`
> 
> Cheers,
> Jussi
> 
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Aron Homberg <info at aron-homberg.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I found that the recent draft / harmony PDF doesn't include a specification of the import syntax and
> just wanna ask if the following wiki pages in (harmony namespace) reflect the current state of discussion
> and if there are big changes to expect in the future regarding this:
> 
>     http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:modules_examples&s=import
> 
> If it's relatively "stable" I would start prototyping the import syntax in my Traceur clone.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Aron
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> es-discuss mailing list
> es-discuss at mozilla.org
> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> es-discuss mailing list
> es-discuss at mozilla.org
> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss