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Re:ES6 is beautiful by rhinoceraptor on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:05PM (#11449728)
That's part of the spec, they're really meant for doing functional style, one liner type of things, like

[1, 2, 3, 4].map(x => x + 1)

You should probably avoid using them for other applications, particularly if you're using a library that uses prototypes because it won't work.

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Re:ES6 is beautiful by douche on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:11PM (#11449778)
If that's what they are for, why call them "arrow functions", and not lambdas like everybody else does?
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Re:ES6 is beautiful by TheCoelacanth on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:47PM (#11450580)
To distinguish from javascript's other longer way of writing the same thing:

    [1, 2, 3, 4].map(function (x) { return x + 1; })
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Re:ES6 is beautiful by rhinoceraptor on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:31PM (#11450456)
Javascript already had lambdas/anonymous functions since the beginning.
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