On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 11:42 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
>> >> Causality was the other way, of course: I implemented splice in SpiderMonkey >> in 1997 based on Perl 4: >> >> http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/splice.html >> >> and indeed it handles omitted OFFSET and LENGTH the same. IE8 is just >> defying a de-facto standard, news at 11 :-P. > and I have no idea why ES3 did not codify the FF implementation. Prior to > the emergence of Safari and Chrome it probably would have been a stretch to > say that the FF behavior was a de facto standard and it is always tricky for > implementors to navigate through situations where there is divergence between > the de jour and de facto standards. Looks like this was also discussed in 2010 on this list: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2010-October/012012.html. >> >> Agree we should codify this in ES6. >Agreed, the ES6 standards and implementations should get aligned on this. In >theory it could go either way, but in this case changing the standard to match >the majority of implementations seems like the reasonable thing to do. IE9/10 also implement the single argument extension, so standardizing this in ES6 would align with now de-facto behavior in modern browsers. >Does somebody want to file a bug so we can track this? Opened bug 429 against the ES6 drafts. https://bugs.ecmascript.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429 Luke _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
