On Oct 27, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Domenic Denicola wrote: > From: es-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam > Klein > >> For what it's worth, given that there exists one implementation (IE 11) that >> gets this right per spec, I'm more inclined as an implementor to match that >> than to try to get the spec changed here. > > Eh, but then we have two implementations agreeing, which is the road toward > locking in this behavior. Better to take advantage of the interoperability > wasteland out at the 2^32 - 1 frontier, and seize the day by making even more > daring changes like pushing the boundaries to 2^53 - 1!!
The reason Array's max length wasn't increased to 2^53 - 1 relates to legacy array wrap-around behavior t the the 2^32 - 1 limit. Nobody wanted to risk changing that because of potential web compat. issues. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
