Global lexical tier

[SaamBarati1]

I don't see how strict/sloppy mode effects the behavior of top-level lexical declarations. Does the behavior depend on strict mode?

I agree with Brendan: I vote for changing this if we can. 

Saam



> On Aug 31, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:
> 
> We are in rapid-release hell/heaven.
> 
> This means errata can be issued, and engines can implement the better resolution for those errata, compared to what the last major-version _de jure_ spec mandated.
> 
> Why not?
> 
> /be
> 
> Adam Klein wrote:
>> Note that this behavior in v8/Chrome is only about sloppy mode. In strict mode, v8 implements the ES6 spec (and we'll likely have support for lexical declarations in sloppy mode soon).
>> 
>> Though I personally agree that the top-level lexical scoping in ES6 seems unfortunate.
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Matthew Robb <matthewwrobb at gmail.com <mailto:matthewwrobb at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Personally I am a fan of Chrome's CURRENT solution:
>>    ```
>>    Uncaught SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const,
>>    function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
>>    ```
>> 
>> 
>>    - Matthew Robb
>> 
>>    On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Jason Orendorff
>>    <jason.orendorff at gmail.com <mailto:jason.orendorff at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>        Hi everyone. Can we talk about the global lexical tier?
>> 
>>        This was a mistake, a real blunder. We all should have known
>>        better.
>>        An extensible intermediate scope implies dynamic scoping. The
>>        referent
>>        of an identifier can change only once, but it can change. It's
>>        like an
>>        implicit `with` block around *all code*.
>> 
>>        This pattern for declaring variable in multiple scripts won't work
>>        with let/const:
>> 
>>            var MyES3Module = MyES3Module || {};
>> 
>>        There's no workaround except "keep using var".
>> 
>>        It's now possible to get a binding permanently wedged, which
>>        is bad for a REPL:
>> 
>>            js> let z = Maht.PI;  // oops, typo
>>            ReferenceError: Maht is not defined
>>            js> z
>>            ReferenceError: binding is not initialized: "z"
>>            js> z = 1;
>>            ReferenceError: binding is not initialized: "z"
>>            js> delete z;
>>            false
>>            js> let z = 1;
>>            SyntaxError: redeclaration of variable: "z"
>> 
>>        For a single name to have two global bindings, both mutable,
>>        is astonishing.
>> 
>>        All of this was unnecessary. What's the benefit to users? We ran
>>        roughshod over existing practice, invariants, and expectations in
>>        order to obtain a kind of self-consistency for `let` that
>>        users don't
>>        expect or even care about.
>> 
>>        We should have just made toplevel let/const/class create global
>>        properties, like var. This is how it was proposed originally
>>        and how
>>        Babel implements it today. For SpiderMonkey, switching to the
>>        worse,
>>        less user-friendly way without regressing performance is
>>        time-consuming.
>> 
>>        We knew all this. We didn't evaluate it correctly. What we
>>        particularly missed is that we already had modules as the way
>>        forward
>>        to a nice toplevel lexical tier, and weird half measures for
>>        scripts
>>        were pointless.
>> 
>>        -j
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