On 11/03/2012 11:06 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> (I am still sad we did not fix indexOf, lastIndexOf, and switch when we >> arguably had the chance.) > > Can you elaborate? We don’t have the chance, any more? Would anything > break (or did, in tests)? > > I am not aware of anyone gathering any evidence one way or the other about > what breakage this might cause. So it is not necessarily too late. If someone > does gather actual evidence that the breakage would be small enough, I could > see us reconsider this. But I doubt we would revisit in the absence of such > evidence.
Just to note, there was a (at least this one) long thread on the topic (well, not including switch -- I don't remember a thread that considered changing switch) back in the day, if someone's invested enough in this to read it. https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es5-discuss/2009-August/003006.html Jeff _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
