Potential alternative

[bakkot]

I believe the committee rejected this proposal as-is. Perhaps we could introduce a different syntax (maybe export ** from?) which would include the default export if it exists, and people could use whichever was appropriate.

[caridy]

@bakkot we will be exploring something similar, specifically, today you have to write two lines:

export * from "foo";
export { default } from "foo";

and we are looking for a single line statement that can signal the same, e.g.:

export *, {default} from "foo";

which is invalid today... something along those lines will be sufficient.

But, the committee was very clear that having an ambiguous statement that doesn't tell the reader whether or not there is a default or not, it a no-go. In other words, you will have to specify whether or not you want the default to be defined.