I've long maintained that JavaScript is a rather peculiar language when it comes down to core language semantics. Inspired by a few hours of discussion and exploration with Chris Langreiter, here's a little example:
function foo() { function bar() {
var f = function() 42; function f() 4711;
function f() 4711; var f = function() 42;
return f; return f;
} }
What do you think, does
foo()() === bar()() hold? Would you expect it to? Would you want it to (say, if you were the one defining the semantics)?Kragen Javier Sitaker 5308 days ago:
I was surprised that the body of a function could be a statement that wasn't a block!
Yes, the hoisting-the-function-statement-to-the-top behavior is sucky and counterintuitive.
earl 5307 days ago:
The "short-hand function bodies" are JavaScript 1.8's "expression closures", a really nice feature, if you ask me (and only available in Mozilla JS engines at the moment, if I'm not mistaken).
Kragen Javier Sitaker 5298 days ago:
It is a really nice feature, and I suppose I should have realized that it wasn't a statement. However, the syntax was a little fragile, as I recall.
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