On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Andy Chu <[email protected]> wrote: >> If Caja has already done something along these lines then awesome -- >> I'm just asking if there is discussion about standardizing such a >> thing. > > Kris Kowal coined the term "hermetic eval" to describe what you are > talking about.
Well I fully support that then, except I don't know exactly what is proposed : ) I see some stuff in your slides http://docs.google.com/present/view?hl=en&id=dcd8d5dk_0cs639jg8 but no definition of hermeticEval. Found this thread but not much discussion: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-September/010009.html http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:modules >> You could implement a module system on top of that ... > > That's the idea. :) I like what Kris said in that thread, that just having hermetic eval is the important part. It's mechanism vs. policy -- a module system has a ton of policy, but hermetic eval is the mechanism. I just want to implement a simple "plugin" system. This is very much like modules but distinct in that there is no "require" -- you don't have the capability to import other modules. So I think there can be many variations of usage for hermetic eval and it shouldn't be tied to a module system. thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
