Trailing commas in arguments list, imports and destructuring

[Jussi Kalliokoski]

Thanks! Had completely missed that GH repo's existence. :)

Cool that this is moving forward!

Thanks to Sebastian for the explanation as well!

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:46 Michael Ficarra <mficarra at shapesecurity.com>
wrote:

> See https://github.com/tc39/ecma262. This proposal is currently at stage
> one. To find out more about what that means, read the process document
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbEE0BsO4lvl7NFTn5WXWeiEIBfaVUF7Dk0hpPpPDzU>
> .
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
> jussi.kalliokoski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just noticed that Babel support trailing commas in function arguments
>> lists, imports and destructuring as well:
>>
>>
>> http://babeljs.io/repl/#?experimental=true&evaluate=true&loose=false&spec=false&code=import%20%7B%0A%20%20voo%2C%0A%20%20doo%2C%0A%7D%20from%20%22.%2Fdat.js%22%3B%0A%0Alet%20%7B%0A%20%20x%2C%0A%20%20y%2C%0A%7D%20%3D%20voo%3B%0A%0Alet%20%5B%0A%20%20z%2C%0A%20%20m%2C%0A%5D%20%3D%20doo%3B%0A%0Afunction%20qoo%20(%0A%20%20x%2C%0A%20%20y%2C%0A)%20%7B%7D
>>
>> Is this correct behavior? I'm not
>>
>> FWIW as I already use trailing commas object and array literals for
>> better diffs, I really like this feature as it comes in handy especially in
>> function signatures where you define types (TypeScript/flow style
>> annotations), for example:
>>
>> function sort <T> (
>>     array : Array<T>,
>>     compareFn : ((left: T, right: T) => number),
>> ) : Array<T> {
>>     ...
>> }
>>
>> as well as import statements for modules that declare constants:
>>
>> import {
>>     BRAND_COLOR,
>>     DEFAULT_TEXT_COLOR,
>>     DARK_GRAY,
>>     LIGHT_GRAY,
>> } from "./constants/COLORS";
>>
>> not to mention "options object" style function signatures:
>>
>> class Person {
>>     constructor ({
>>         firstName,
>>         lastName,
>>         birthDate,
>>         country,
>>         city,
>>         zipCode,
>>     }) {
>>         this.firstName = firstName;
>>         this.lastName = lastName;
>>         this.birthDate = birthDate;
>>         this.country = country;
>>         this.city = city;
>>         this.zipCode = zipCode;
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> To me, the spec language as per Jason's HTML version looks like at least
>> for destructuring this is supported, but at least I can't read the spec to
>> allow trailing commas in function signatures. At least this doesn't seem to
>> be incorporated into the spec:
>>
>> https://esdiscuss.org/notes/2014-09/trailing_comma_proposal.pdf
>>
>> Is the proposal still on track for ES7 and am I correct in my reading of
>> the destructuring allowing trailing commas?
>>
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