The polyfill already exists on npm <https://www.npmjs.com/package/globalthis>; it's linked from the proposal repo.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:02 AM kai zhu <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for unified global-object (currently stage-3) > > can someone pm me what the redacted-name is? i'm interested in > polyfilling it for existing projects, e.g.: > > ```js > /*jslint browser*/ > /*global global process*/ > (function () { > /* > * polyfill for > * https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global > * assuming redacted-name is "global2" > */ > "use strict"; > var global2; > try { > global2 = process.versions.node && global; > } catch (ignore) { > } > global2 = global2 || window; > global2.global2 = global2; > }()); > ``` > > kai zhu > [email protected] > > On 11 Aug 2018, at 1:29 AM, Jordan Harband <[email protected]> wrote: > > The rationale is in the notes themselves. > > Yes, we could do so in principle, but it's rarely useful to do so. > > If the impact is insignificant, then we made nothing worse, just delayed > some information spreading for a few weeks/months. If the impact is > significant, then this has a positive effect. > > I'm not seeing the downside. > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:27 AM, kdex <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd be interested to learn why it was decided to redact a possible new >> name >> for `global` in the latest meeting notes[1]. >> >> Although I do understand that redacting the name minimizes its chance to >> gain >> more usage, I doubt that the impact would be significant; if anything, I >> think >> people would have trouble to think of this form of standardization as >> "open". >> >> By the same argument, we could in principle redact any new >> prototype/global >> property, couldn't we? Is the intent not to cause a second "smooshgate"? >> What's the point? >> >> [1] https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es9/2018-07/ >> july-24.md#new-name-for-global >> <https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es9/2018-07/july-24.md#new-name-for-global> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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