Herby Vojčík wrote:
WHY / WHAT / HOW sections (with only HOW being normative)?
I've said it before: ECMA-357 (E4X) tried this and all it did was make more bug habitat in the informative sections, and confuse implementors who treated prose as normative and took its differences not as bugs, but as truth (either ignoring the normative spec pseudo-code, or thinking it wrong).
As Sam said, a spec cannot serve two masters. Pedagogy and more advanced studies require other tools. The first job of the spec is to normatively specify the language for implementors.
I look forward to Brandon's super-cross-referencing work! /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
