On 14-02-15 07:44 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Feb 15, 2014 9:47 AM, "Brendan Eich" wrote:
When I'm in a bad mood, I call it VisualCobol. It's painfully
low-level and verbose, yet hard to verify. Let's hope that the JSCert
work will help, and Allen has been common'ing subroutines. Whatever we
call it, the spec language ain't great.
Tooling could help. I've filed a number of minor bugs against the draft
spec about undefined identifiers, unused variables, etc. In theory at
least those issues could be automatically linted.
Some of the bugs I submit are uncovered by a lint-like process. However,
there's a substantial amount of crufty code involved in converting the spec
into a lint-able form, and probably most of the bugs I submit arise when
that code fails to convert some chunk of spec text.
-Michael
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