On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Oct 11, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Rick Waldron wrote: > > > On Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: > > > express for node already does this, for error handlers: > > http://expressjs.com/guide.html#error-handling > > express is very popular; #4 on Most Depended Upon packages; #1 on Most > Starred at npm: > > > This is helpful. So, judgement aside, we can say there is a certain level > of usage of Function.length out there for overloading based on a function's > "signature". It seems to me that reporting Function.length as the number > of formal parameters, minus rest, will be more appropriate for this use > case. > > > Having trouble finding the resolution, but I'm fairly certain this was > discussed and your suggestion here matches consensus > > > Previous threads where this topic was discussed: > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-June/023277.html > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-August/016361.html > > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-September/016417.html > > There was no consensus to change the current ES6 draft specification for > function length. > Sorry, I didn't mean consensus to change anything—my "fairly certain" above was just wrong as I had forgotten this: "or the first FormalParameter with an Initialiser.". Apologies for the confusion. Rick > > Allen > > >
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