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anko / eslisp

un-opinionated S-expression syntax and macro system for JavaScript
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suggestion: rename `=` to `var` #15

Closed lhorie closed 8 years ago

lhorie commented 8 years ago

I think (var a 1) and (var a) read closer to their intent than (= a 1) and (= a)

Also, ES6 has let, so including a let macro into eslisp later would be more orthogonal if the hoisted declaration identifier is var

And that would free up the = identifier so you could use that for assignment instead of :=, to keep things closer to js syntax

anko commented 8 years ago

I agree—those should be the defaults.

The current names are remnants from when it hadn't quite clicked yet that I wanted eslisp to just clearly map to JS.

anko commented 8 years ago

In v0.5.0. :sparkles: