On Dec 24, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Brandon Benvie <[email protected]> wrote:
> While seemingly out of date (though looks to have been updated recently), the > modules_standard proposal is still listed as ostensibly part of harmony > (ES6). For the most part it simply lists all the standard builtins from > chapter 15 but there's a few new things in here. What caught my eye a while > back specifically was the non-method versions of call, bind, and apply as > part of '@function'. While these three are particularly useful as non-method > versions, I think the usefulness clearly extends beyond this small selection > to at least the most commonly used ones (I'm thinking of > Array.prototype.push, Object.prototype.toString, etc.) that aren't covered by > other new ES6 functionality (like hasOwnProperty is covered by '@reflect'). Yeah, this set was an initial stab by me, but needs some polish as well as to be unified/aligned with @reflect. > In particular, non-method versions of all the Map, Set, and WeakMap methods, > along with most of Array methods, would be very useful. A non "method" > version of the constructor itself, like mapCreate(object, iterable), would be > useful. The collection methods are similar to the Array methods. Not because > they work generically like the Array methods do, but because any object can > (given proper initialization) be the target of these methods. That may be, and thanks for the feedback. Since this area is going to be like crack for bikeshedders, I think I'll leave it there. Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
