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Re: What's a good Javascript book?

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
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> The goal symbol right-hand side is irrelevant, as the Specification is 
> structured in sections so that it is clear what is a statement and what is 
> not.  And the goal symbol left-hand side emphasizes that.
...

I don't think you really mean to argue that being defined in Section 12
makes it clear that a symbol is a Statement, rather than just something
so closely related to statements that it makes sense to put it in the
same section.

See, for example, the Section 12 production

Initialiser :
   = AssignmentExpression

Patricia

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                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-13 19:45 +0100
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                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-13 21:52 +0100
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