@Kris What about `import {apply} from "@std:reflect"`? (totally not my
original idea)On Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 13:45 Kris Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > I love this idea. I was originally hoping to champion a whole slew of > additions to the JavaScript Standard Library because I'd really love for a > set of standard ways to do much of what we use private APIs today (lack of > time to follow up on my original thread). > > I'm not sure how it works out logistically though with ECMA. But a > separation at least makes sense to me (especially if we start adding a lot > to the standard library which I know many are against but like Python I > think it would be a huge boon to the JavaScript community). > > I don't think import foo from std is the worst idea either but that would > be breaking unless we put it under "use stricter" or something similar. > > On Jul 28, 2016 10:02 AM, "John Lenz" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A fair amount of text in the EcmaScript spec is spent on defining the >> EcmaScript standard classes and methods. This has the side-effect of doing >> two things: >> >> - encouraging standard classes/methods to have special behavior >> - discouraging creating appropriate "building blocks" >> >> How differently would EcmaScript have been defined if Map, WeakMap, >> Promise, etc were only defined in terms of a "core" language. Would we >> have a standard identity hash code? A concept of time? >> >> Many of the existing Array.prototype methods, etc could be moved to >> "Library" project that could be defined in terms of an implementation >> rather than step-by-step spec language. >> >> To be clear, I'm not proposing a different delivery mechanism (aka >> "import foo from std") but simply a change to the evolutionary process to >> encourage a clean separation. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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