module exports

[John Barton]

What is a 'mutable binding'?


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Domenic Denicola <
domenic at domenicdenicola.com> wrote:

>  Importing is nothing like destructuring. You import mutable bindings;
> you don't do assignment. I'm very glad that different syntax is used for
> each case.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 14, 2014 10:19
> *To:* Kevin Smith
> *Cc:* Domenic Denicola; es-discuss at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: module exports
>
>  I understand it's hard to make changes after a certain point. It's too
> bad though that developers will have to remember that the way to import a
> few things from a module is:
>
>  import {foo, bar} from 'somewhere';
>
>  but the way to import the whole module is:
>
>  module SomeModule from 'somewhere';
>
>  instead of
>
>  import SomeModule from 'somewhere';
>
>  It just seems so clean to say that if you want to import something, you
> always use the "import" keyword.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Kevin Smith <zenparsing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>            export { foo as default };
>>>>
>>>>  I fail to see why sugar over this form is necessary.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  I completely agree. Plus if this is taken away then the "import"
>>> keyword can be used to get the whole module as in my example above. At that
>>> point maybe there is no need for the "module" keyword.
>>>
>>
>>  Maybe, but at this point that would be too big of a change to swallow.
>>  I think if we can just focus on eliminating this one pointless and
>> confusing aspect (the export default [expr] form), we'll be good to go.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>  --
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.
>
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