> From: Brendan Eich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:25 AM [snip] > > Hi Allen, could you remind me and a few others who were wondering > yesterday (sorry I don't remember -- it's in minutes, somewhere) why > [[Deletable]] was not chosen instead of [[Flexible]]? Thanks.
The reason for not using "deletable" was originally explained in the message below. I believe that at one of the phone meetings after Oslo we briefly discussed changing it back to "dynamic" or possibly something else but the consensus was to stick with "flexible". > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:es3.x-discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen Wirfs-Brock > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-discuss; [EMAIL PROTECTED] es4- > discuss > Subject: RE: "dynamic" attribute nomenclature > > At today's ES 3.1 conference call (see > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=meetings:minutes_jun_24_2008) > we agreed to use the term "Flexible" for the property attribute that > we recently had been calling "Dynamic" and which subsumes the > DontDelete attribute. > > From: Allen Wirfs-Brock > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:37 AM > To: Lars Hansen; Mark S. Miller > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-discuss > Subject: "dynamic" attribute nomenclature > > In Lars's feedback on the the June 11, ES3.1 draft he said: > > p26 8.6.1. (And throughout the spec) The meaning of "dynamic" in ES4 > is something else (it means a non-fixture property). It would probably > reduce confusion if the property name Deletable were used here, as I > though we had agreed previously. > > Dynamic as currently used in ES3.1 means more than just Deletable, it > also means that the property attributes (including the Dynamic > attribute) can be modified and that it can be transformed between > being a data and procedural property. Hence, the name Deletable seems > to imply something too narrow. > > Playing around with the thesaurus, the best "positive, active term that > I could find that seems to be a reasonable description of this > semantics is: > Alterable > > (other, perhaps less satisfy or otherwise unacceptable alternatives > include: changeable, mutable, modifiable, flexible, amendable) > > Note this would mean that data properties would expose properties > named Writable and Alterable. My sense is that there is enough > conceptual distance between those terms that there won't be too much > confusion. > > Thoughts?? _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
