Written Proposal for "package" Keyword for ES20XX Imports

[Logan Smyth]

I don't have tons of comments on the proposal as a whole, but I do think
there may be confusion about ES6 imports. Imports are resolved and
processed and modules linked before any execution of the module body takes
place. I can't tell from your description if you are reading that
differently.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Greg McLeod <cleod9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Ryan. I think there would be a bit of an issue with introducing
> dictionary support alone in that it does not provide a new way for the
> language to define where modules actually live in the application itself as
> opposed to the file system. This misses out on the benefits the package
> keyword could provide. "package" should impose some limitations on the
> top-most scope of a module to facilitate the ability to define the packages
> before actually executing a module's body.
>
> To elaborate, one of the biggest benefits I'd like to emphasize is the
> complete isolation of dependency resolution and actual module body
> execution.
>
> The package keyword in my proposal would allow you to arbitrarily say
> "here's the complete structure of my app, all dependencies already
> resolved" and subsequently take action on it after it has been fully loaded
> into memory in its entirety. Augmenting existing import syntax cannot allow
> this since the core body of each module is being executed amidst the
> dependency graph being resolved as each "import" is encountered by the
> interpreter.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Ryan Birmingham <rainventions at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I like the idea you're working from here, it seems to partially resemble
>> header files. I'm not sure if a package keyword is needed though; couldn't
>> you accomplish the same thing with just adding dictionary support and an
>> optional alias parameter to import/export?
>>
>> -Ryan Birmingham
>>
>> On 21 February 2017 at 12:27, Greg McLeod <cleod9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Back in 2015 I was working on a proposal for the "package" keyword, but
>>> stopped prematurely as ES6/ES2015 had already been shipped. Since then I've
>>> been occasionally iterating on it anyway in order to flesh out my ideas
>>> with how it could fit with the new import syntax. I wanted to share with
>>> the mailing list to get some feedback on it, as well as help facilitate
>>> some of the discussion regarding future import syntax.
>>>
>>> Proposal can be found here:
>>> https://gist.github.com/Cleod9/7f73017905d124210ec8
>>>
>>> I should note that a lot of this is derived from an ActionScript to
>>> JavaScript proof-of-concept transpiler I wrote a few years back. (Live
>>> demo: https://as3js.org/demo/ ). I believe this type of package
>>> syntax/behavior has already been possible since ES5, although I have yet to
>>> find any proposals for the keyword that resemble that of battle-tested
>>> languages like Java/C#.
>>>
>>> I think there are a lot of time-saving qualities that packages could
>>> provide for bundled JS applications we have yet to explore, and it could
>>> even open the door to a JS standard library. Even if this doesn't go
>>> anywhere I certainly hope by making this proposal public it will be a
>>> useful for reference for what is possible in the current state of affairs.
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>> P.S. Screen-cap of a potential IDE future with packages:
>>> http://i.imgur.com/D5EGNUN.gifv
>>>
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