agreed and not only, it took years before various engines fully implemented ES5 so saying years later that an engine is fully compliant with a year in the past feels so wrong !!!
Why is that? Where is the thread that explains this decision? I mean ... how should I call my browser that is not 100% compliant with HTML5, a fully compliant HTML 1997 browser ? Thanks for any sort of clarification On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Jaydson Gomes <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a lot of projects, articles and materials out there using the > "ES6" nomenclature. > I don't think changing the name right now, close to the final release, and > when people are already familiarized with the name is good approach. > What is the point? > Using the year in the version name remind me Windows. > > On Thu Jan 22 2015 at 8:14:28 PM Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Axel Rauschmayer [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> > OK, good to know. Does it make sense to normally refer to it as >> “JavaScript 2015”, then? >> >> I don't really think so, but I don't have a storng opinion. >> >> > Even ignoring books, I don’t share that attitude: for programming >> languages, a slower pace is good. >> >> Well, I'm sorry* the committee plans to disappoint you then :). >> >> * not actually sorry. >> >> > * Establish modules (I’m seeing browser APIs based on promises, but >> none that are based on modules) >> >> This is just further reflection of the idea that spec version numbers are >> fictional and what matters is implementation progress. Promises are >> established because they've been implemented for a long time now. Modules >> aren't even close to being implemented anywhere. Saying they're both part >> of the same Word document is a true, but useless, statement. >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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