ES6 spec: `export default` HoistableDeclaration

[Axel Rauschmayer]

>> OK, I take it the following wasn’t viable?
> 
> that’s correct.  We wanted the initialization of a function like:
>     export default function () {}
> to be hoisted, just like:
>     export function f() {};

I suspect that that will confuse people: they will expect an anonymous function to be an expression, not a declaration (even more so because the operand of `export default` is usually an expression). Does hoisting even matter if the function doesn’t have a name? Is it worth it to introduce a completely new construct (an anonymous function declaration) just for `export default`?

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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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