writable: can be written to enumerable: can be enumerated flexible: can be flexed?
how about configurable? On Aug 20, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: >> 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 _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
