AFAICT, this agrees with my analysis of what your proposal means. How does
this not result in three modes?
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com>wrote:
>
> On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:03 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>
> > No sorry, I just spotted the flaw. The observable difference is that a
> conforming browser is not required by the (ES5 + ES6) specs to provide any
> non-triggering ES6 features for program #2. In that case, we again have
> three mode.
> >
> > For example, since legacy constrains us from making nested named
> function declarations a triggering feature, if program #2 has a nested
> named function and the browser rejected it, that browser would still
> conform to both the ES5 and ES6 spec.
>
> Implementations that currently support extensions to ES5 (and wish to
> continue to support them) must classify their extensions into one of the
> four categories I identified and then process them according to the state
> machine. Because no currently implementation of function declarations
> within blocks (that I'm aware of) matches the ES6 lexical scoping
> semantics, it would expect such function declarations to be classified as
> ES5~ES6. Then, according to the state machine, a program like:
>
> function f(g) {
> //not the following will produce inconsistent results among common
> browsers
> if (!g) {
> function g() {return 1}
> }
> else if (typeof g !== 'function') {
> function g() {return 2}
> }
> return g;
> }
>
> will be processed using the (implementation extended) ES5 specification
> and both f and g would presumably be non-strict functions. If you wanted
> the above to be processed as ES6 code you would need to add some ES6-only
> features such as: let ES6; or use some other forced opt-in such as a
> version in the MIME type.
>
> The above is exactly analogies to how any "standard" ES5~ES6 features
> would be treated.
>
> Allen
>
>
>
--
Cheers,
--MarkM
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