On Apr 20, 2015, at 8:55 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hello! > In > <http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-execution-contexts>, > a paragraph reads: > > | Transition of the running execution context status among execution > | contexts usually occurs in stack-like last-in/first-out manner. > | However, some ECMAScript features require non-LIFO transitions of the > | running execution context. > > I wonder what this means? > My first guess was that this refers to generators, whose contexts enter and > leave the stack multiple times at will (in contrast to a normal context that > enters only once and is destroyed after being suspended), but I found that > generator contexts are pushed to and popped from the stack as everything else.
Yes, generators was what I had in mind when I wrote that. > > On closer inspection, I found that the spec sometimes uses the term "remove" > and sometimes "pop" when suspending an execution context, but I can't imagine > a case where this did not refer to the topmost context on the stack. > Can you give me an example? Did I miss something? probably not. feel free to file a ES7 bug saying that such inconsistent terminology usage should be eliminated. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
