typos fixed in item 3 below On Oct 26, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> ES5 added "poison pill" properties to the strict mode function objects that > were intended to prevent implementors from supporting the non-standard legacy > "caller" and "arguments" properties on such objects. > > In ES6 we have several new syntactic forms for defining functions: arrow > functions, concise methods, generators. What should be do WRT the position > pill properties for functions defined using such new syntax. Possibilities: > > 1) Same as ES5 function definitions. If strict they get the poison pills , > if non-strict they don't. > 2) All new function forms always get poison pills, even if they aren't > strict. > 3) They never get poison pills because implementors >>wouldn't<< be silly > enough to associate these legacy features with new syntax. > > Options 1&2 would essentially collapse to "always" if new function definition > syntactic forms always produced strict mode code. However, I believe, the > current plan of record is that the new forms have the same strict mode opt-in > rules as ES5 uses for function definitions. > > Allen > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
