Module Default Export Syntax

Barronville, Jonathan jonathan at belairlabs.com
Tue Jun 24 22:29:34 PDT 2014


Kevin, you're not alone :) . I like that last form, too.

- Jonathan

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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de>
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> I do like the conciseness of the last form. The other forms do indeed not seem very useful.
> On Jun 25, 2014, at 5:45 , Kevin Smith <zenparsing at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>     ExportDeclaration:
>>         ...
>>         export default ClassDeclaration
>>         export default FunctionDeclaration
>>         export default GeneratorDeclaration
>>         export default = AssignmentExpression
>> 
>> 
>> To reply to myself (since no one else appears to be interested), I think it might even be best to drop these special forms altogether.  The non-sugared form of:
>> 
>>     export { someVar as default };
>> 
>> is already very concise, and will help developers understand what this whole "default" thing is about.  The sugar appears to be obfuscating the design, and is doing more harm than good.
>> 
>> Again, thoughts?
>> 
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