On 11 October 2012 17:49, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > "Script" is not neutral but neither is "Program" plus it's just wrong. > The language needs a name for both the unit of compilation and the > assembly of those units. The latter is a program right? So the former > needs a different name. > > "CompilationUnit" is a bit long but more correct.
Except that the "unit of compilation" is an individual function in most contemporary JS implementations. ;) More generally, I think that implementation-specific notions like "compilation" are to be avoided in a language spec. Script sounds perfectly reasonable to me. /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
