On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Bradley Meck <[email protected]> wrote:
> This requirement is not specified in EcmaScript, and I have started > playing around with `null` inheriting globals. I do not want it explicitly > mandated by this if ES does not mandate it. Is there a reason it is a > mandate and not an Annex that is there due to some parts of the ecosystem? > If we can get general agreement, to minimize pointless variations after that agreement, mandating the agreed state is generally better. If we can't, then we probably can't get enough agreement for an Annex B entry. The main reason for listing something in Annex B: * It is normative optional -- if the feature exists at all, it must exist like so. Since the global object must exist, the normative optional rationale would not seem to apply. > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Good question! >> >> Regarding the existing global, the frozen realm API proposal does not say >> anything at all -- it is concerned only about TheFrozenRealm and realms >> descendant from it. Outside of the frozen realm proposal, I would indeed >> like us to pin this down better for globals in general. Why only in the >> Annex? If we can get agreement to pin it down, I would prefer that it be in >> the main normative-mandatory text. >> >> Regarding the global of TheFrozenRealm, I did not intend to underspecify >> that. This is an oversight that I will fix. When I said "the global of >> TheFrozenRealm is a plain object" I had in mind that it would inherit >> directly from Object.prototype. I will revise to say that explicitly. >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Bradley Meck <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Does this mandate that the global inherit from any specific prototype? >>> Most cases in the wild inherit from Object at some point, but I feel that >>> should only be in the Annex. Several large libraries depend on this, but it >>> is not strictly required for all libraries. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> --MarkM >> > > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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