es7-membrane: A new ECMAScript 2016 Membrane implementation

[Rick Waldron]

More importantly, Ben Newman is championing a proposal for nested imports:
https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/646

- Rick

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:30 PM /#!/JoePea <joe at trusktr.io> wrote:

> Sidenote: Ben Newman's [Reify](https://github.com/benjamn/reify)
> implements experimental deferred (non-top-level) imports in which case you
> *can* wrap imports in a try-catch. It's been really nice in practice (I've
> been taking advantage of it in Meteor, which uses Reify).
>
> */#!/*JoePea
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Calvin Metcalf <calvin.metcalf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> looks like you missed the part of the chapter that convered this :)
>>
>>
>> http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_modules.html#_imports-and-exports-must-be-at-the-top-level
>>
>> but the tl;dr is imports are statically resolved before runtime and so
>> must be at the top level outside of any sort of block or function.  In
>> other words if there is an error when it comes to importing something the
>> code won't run so a try catch is unneeded.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:54 AM Alex Vincent <ajvincent at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a new ECMAScript membrane implementation [1], which I will
>>> maintain and use in a professional capacity, and which I’m looking for lots
>>> of help with in the form of code reviews and API design advice.
>>>
>>> I wrote a lengthier post on my weblog [2], with more details of what I
>>> hope to get out of it.  From this group, I'm hoping to get some API design
>>> advice, and suggestions on how to make it even more ECMAScript-friendly and
>>> follow the rules of ES6 modules.
>>>
>>> Side note, specifically for this group:  After reading Dr. Rauschmeyer's
>>> chapter on ES6 modules [3], I tried writing the following:
>>> try {
>>>   import ...
>>> }
>>> catch (e) {
>>>   // do something else
>>> }
>>>
>>> But that resulted in a syntax error for import not being the first line
>>> of the script.  I really wonder why it's illegal to wrap the import
>>> statement in a try block...
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/ajvincent/es7-membrane
>>> [2] https://alexvincent.us/blog/?p=908
>>> [3] http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_modules.html
>>>
>>> Thank you for both your time and your good work on the ES6 specification
>>> and implementations!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alex Vincent
>>> Hayward, CA
>>>
>>> --
>>> "The first step in confirming there is a bug in someone else's work is
>>> confirming there are no bugs in your own."
>>> -- Alexander J. Vincent, June 30, 2001
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