On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > There are three questions here, which need to be settled in roughly this > chronological order: > 1) What should tc39 do quickly, to unblock the DOM's need for promises and > avoid a design fork? > 2) What should DOM do quickly the tc39's quick output? > 3) Once #1 and #2 are settled, what should tc39 do for es7? > > For #1 I agree with Tab. We should not reopen this issue, but should rather > proceed to settle the AP2ish design quickly. Otherwise we won't settle > anything quickly and DOM will go their own way.
And, importantly, except for the open question of thenable/branding, our proposal is behaviorally and API-compatible with current DOM promises. > For #2, since whatever DOM does quickly becomes a compat constraint on all > future decisions, DOM should take the minimum subset of #1 which actually > meets their short term needs. I leave it to those who understand those needs > to argue about what these are. Unfortunately, the thenable question still impinges on the minimum subset. :/ ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
