On Jan 16, 2012, at 5:49 PM, David Herman wrote: > On Jan 16, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > >> One of the thing that an "ES6" (or "extended code" as it is currently known >> in the ES6 draft) mode that is distinct from "strict mode" does is allow us >> do add additional Early Errors that aren't in ES5 for various existing >> constructs. It isn't clear that we could continue to have add these errors >> if we don't have this "mode" distinction as they are generally potentially >> breaking changes. > > The distinction still exists; it's just "code that is syntactically contained > within a module."
Except that it isn't clear to me that such a syntactically scoped mode would be compatible with other goals expressed by others on this thread such as, for example, avoiding refactoring pitfalls. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
