On Jul 18, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Jeff Walden wrote: > > Easiest fix is to just add the length-set to concat. For a quick ES5 erratum > that seems best to me.
Yes, this needs to be in the errata. > > Removing all the RangeError stuff, and making array indexes just non-negative > integers, would be nice for ES6 or similar. I suspect changing that won't > break anyone worth caring about, although I do know some people have taken > the time to care about this in the past (mostly in a spec-nut way :-) ): > > http://hexmen.com/blog/2006/12/push-and-pop/ > > Without having thought too hard about exactly what would be involved, I > suspect the amount of stuff you'd need to adjust, and the complexity of > checking for sane behavior in all cases (including some of the 2**52 > upper-bounding edge cases, depending on what new semantics you might want for > "array indexes" or whatever), would make it unwise to try for ES5 errata. > But I could well be wrong about this, so I wouldn't necessarily write off > that possibility. We won't do this as an errata. It is a change that would have to be treated as a change in a future edition rather than an error correction of the current edition. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
