On May 11, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > See http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:egal -- I took the liberty > of renaming 'eq' to 'is' and I made the operator idea from the November TC39 > meeting concrete. > > Note that egal as an ''is' operator, with 'isnt' as the not-egal operator, > differs from CoffeeScript's 'is' and 'isn't, which are sugar for === and !== > respectively. Nevertheless, I think 'is' and 'isn't are much better names > than 'eq' and 'neq' or 'ne' (ouch). If ES.next standardizes this proposal, > Coffee will cope. > > The proposal is already harmonious without being complete, and my edits are > not the last word, but it seemed worth iterating to make the proposal have > fewer open issues and more detailed rationale. I did leave a couple of open > issues. Please holler at me if there are more to add. > > Hi Brendan and Allen, > > I just looked over all the changes from the page as accepted into proposals. > I think I like them all but would like to take post-May time to think it > over. AFAICT, there are no semantic issues raised by these changes. Is there > any urgency I'm missing (like an impending 7.x Nightly) for resolving these > concrete syntactic and naming issues sooner rather than later?
No, no rush -- just wanted to let es-discuss know about the update so we can have plenty of discussion time. /be
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