{this} object literal

[Gary Guo]

Because the shorthand requires an Identifer, and an IdentiferName is not sufficient. If the rule allows arbitrary IdentiferName, then we will also allow `{if}`, which makes no sense it all. So if we really want to allow this, it would be a special rule in addition to the current rule. In this sense, we are not forbidden the use of `{this}`, but instead we don't have the rule to allow that.

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From: es-discuss <es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org> on behalf of Michał Wadas <michalwadas at gmail.com>
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Subject: {this} object literal

Hi.

Is there any specific reason why {this} literal is forbidden? Babel had a bug allowing this and it was pretty convenient to enter console.log({this, arguments, externalVar}) for quick printing scope.

Michał Wadas
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