Hang on. The proposal is to change typeof null == "null" only under opt-in to Harmony.
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:object_isobject I'll rewrite this as a harmony:typeof proposal for the next TC39 meeting, but it's already harmonious in concept. /be On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Andreas Gal wrote: > > I think there is pretty broad consensus that this will affect the web. To > what extent is unclear. I would be willing to take our nightly testers for a > test drive for a couple days to see how badly things break if TC39 is leaning > towards making such a change. Before we do that maybe you want to compile a > browser with that change and surf around a bit and see how it goes? google, > amazon, facebook, etc. > > Andreas > > On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Tom Schuster wrote: > >> Hey list, >> >> just wanted to ask what's going to happen with typeof null, i am a lot >> in the favor of changing it to say "null". Changing this was discussed >> here http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:object_isobject >> and http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:typeof. I think >> ´typeof null´ could use it's own proposal and some tracking how much >> this would affect the web. >> >> Cheers >> Tom Schuster >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
