static/class properties

[Andrew Fedoniouk]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Andrea Giammarchi
<andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> the A.whatever is explicit to the class so it's the less ambiguous, IMO
>
> I see already confusing to understand if properties will be defined in the
> instance or in the class ... could not tell easily while I could, reading
> `A.VALUE = 10;` instead.
>
> Anyway, using that outside the class definition as:
>
> ```javascript
> class A {
>   // do whatever in here ...
>   // that you want inherited/assigned too
> }
> const A.VALUE = 10;
> ```
>
> is already good, if possible, and ambiguity free (but I cannot remember the
> `const obj.prop = value;` state)
>
> Hopefully in that way instances won't inherit a thing for sure ^_^
>

I did them this way:

class Foo {

   this var instanceVar1 = 1;
   this var instanceVar2 = 2;

   var classVar1 = 3;
   var classVar2 = 3;
}

'this var' can easily be parsed and will not break existing grammar.

In fact I do have [1] other "this thing" combinations:

"this function" - reference of current function inside the function.
Useful e.g. for recursive calls of anonymous functions.
"this super"  - reference of 'this' of outer function.
"this super super ..." - the same as above but for outer this of outer, etc.

[1] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/33662/TIScript-language-a-gentle-extension-of-JavaScript

-- 
Andrew Fedoniouk.

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