On Oct 4, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Juan Ignacio Dopazo wrote: > Yes, tools should be better, but they need to start becoming better by > themselves as previous discussions here have noted. > > However, there are problems in the language that need to be addressed by both > syntax and APIs. We need: > > - A sane way of dealing with equality, identity and basically a lot of what's > in http://wtfjs.com/
Some of that is due to implicit conversions, not any equality-ish operator. > - Ways of isolating code from the global scope Covered by modules and module loaders. > - Tools for avoiding XSS That's a cross-cutting problem, not just core language. So, yes, tools but no silver bullets. ES5 has some tools, ES6 has more. > There was talk about an "is" or "eq" operator to fix equality, but it seems > it got demoted or interest was lost. Wrong: wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:egal /be
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