On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Adam Peller<apel...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Douglas Crockford writes: >>Adam Peller scripsit: >> >>> I don't feel strongly on this, but it does strike me as odd that >>> a function intended to avoid culturally-sensitive output would use >>> an English phrase. I'd lean towards IE/Opera, using notation from >>> ECMAScript that is equally cryptic to all cultures :-) At least that >>> would be consistent with Number.toString() and would reinforce the fact >>> that there are other methods to produce strings in the user's locale. >> >>I think this is what exceptions are for. >>An English string makes little sense. >>NaN is nonsense. > > For toISOString I also favor an exception. The toString reference threw me > off, since toString would not be able to throw in the invalid case and > remain compatible. toString Implementations could certainly call > toISOString, catch the exception, and choose some nonsensical, unspecified > replacement,
Implementation of toString would probably not want to use try catch. They might rather do something along the lines of:- If the date is finite, return an implementation-dependent string (which could be the resutl of toISOString). Otherwise, return an implementation-dependent string (such as "invalid date"). A native method for generating a few of the popular or common ISO 8601 formats, such as the extended YYYY-MM-DD seems useful, to me. Is it just me? It seems that an "es5-discuss" list was created. I'm only subscribing to es-discuss. It that a deprecated list? What is the difference between these lists? Garrett _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
