On Mar 11, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Charles Kendrick wrote:

> Yes Allen, hence the urgency.  If IE9 final ships that way, the "goose is 
> cooked":

I hear tell of something happening next Monday. Goose, well-done, stuffed, I 
think.


> 1. we will have a new de facto standard iteration order for Object that does 
> not match any known use case - it is purely an implementation detail leaking 
> through

IE9 seems to match the 
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:enumeration strawman.


> 2. the majority of real-world applications will be slowed down because 
> developers will need to re-implement the very commonly needed LinkedHashMap 
> behavior in JavaScript

Where is this LinkedHashMap thing from? Oh, Java.

Again, IE9 is late to the party in breaking insertion order for indexed 
properties.


> 3. developers will waste a bunch of time doing this when the language could 
> have provided it

Can you cite some open source JS libraries or apps that would need to change?

/be

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