Start to disambiguate between types of initializers.#559
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Start to disambiguate between types of initializers.#559trusktr wants to merge 2 commits intotc39:masterfrom
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Whoops, I goofed up in the example, I forgot to return initial values. New example The ambiguity on the wording remains though. I'll update the change to reflect the correct behavior. |
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Ok the PR is updated (basically no change) but the question remains: how exactly do we name these two types of initializers so that it is clear which initializers we're talking about when we talk about them? "value initializers" or "element initializers", and "context initializers" or "non-value initializers" or "non-element initializers"? |
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The README says here:
This TypeScript playground example shows how the behavior did not match with what people typically consider "initialized" to mean. People consider "initialized" to mean that that a property has been created and has a value. The absence of a variable typically means the variable is not initialized yet.
After this change, it starts to be a little clearer what the actual behavior is, but the wording is still ambiguous: there are really two types of initializers here, and perhaps they need to concrete names to disambiguate so that people can understand more easily.
For example, what if they are called
?
Then we could say something like
or in the case of class fields something like
Something along these lines will help solve the ambiguous wording.