On Jan 22, 2015 7:17 PM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org> wrote: > > Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > > > > Serves me right for looking only at the HTML!
And the html is still one rev behind so you are missing all of the constructor redo that is in rev31 > > Not for Allen, who I am pretty sure agrees: > > This seems "just fine", not a problem. Yet at least for a while, > possibly longer than some TC39ers think, people will still say "ES6". I > find Andrea's WTF to be overdone, overstated -- but we shall find out. > Even TC39 can make changes based on wider feedback, after it has made a > decision. > > The idea of a community-approved name or naming scheme brings to mind > that Axel wished for a "community-managed" trademark. Be careful what > you wish for. The Ecma TC39 renaming process (like just about any other > TC39 decision process) was not community-driven, with a lengthy > propose/listen/dispose cycle and some kind of "open governance" (however > defined). > > Rather, we're still doing consensus among a mix of pay-to-play and > not-for-profit standard body members, where members have to build trust > among developers and work in Harmony, at least in the modern post-ES4 > era. Renaming angst, which could become an issue or just blow up for > some reason we can't foresee, is just one issue to address for the same > of developer trust and harmony. > > /be > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
