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hiccuphippo on Dec 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: V8 release v7.2

But you could do the same with "_".

I think the feature is good but couldn't they find a different character than one used for comments almost everywhere else?

iraldir on Dec 19, 2018 [–]

Well a lot of characters are already taken. Starting with _ is already valid JS syntax so it would break existing code. @ was a popular symbol for this but got taken by decorators.

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