On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > > So let's say ES6 is Harmony. >> > > Last message from me on this topic today, I promise. > Aha! Carte blanche to have the last word of the day! Better seize while it's hot. Just kidding ;) > > I wanted to encourage the use of "Harmony" for what's next, over against > "ES6". The ES3.1 -> ES5 experience, and of course many software release > renumbering adventures from our collective professional and open source > lives, teach us to avoid burning numbers in SiO2 prematurely. Ecma wants > whole edition numbers, ISO tracks those. There could be a reason to do a > fast ES6 that is not "Harmony". > > So don't early-bind to ES6 :-P. > As I think Allen first suggested (please correct if I misattribute or misconstrue), I have been using "Harmony" to label the trajectory that the Harmony agreement set us on. I have been using "ES6" to name whatever the next concrete spec edition will be that emerges from our agreed trajectory. No matter how fast or slow ES6 is, many of the things currently hoped for under the Harmony banner will not make it into the next concrete edition. -- Cheers, --MarkM
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