On 11/12/07 2:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > Thank you for adding me to this list. > > I have just finished reading the language proposal spec, and was > struck by the richness of the additions to the language. I haven't > been following this effort at all; and so thank people in advance for > their patience with my ignorance. Now that I've seen the spec, there > are two more documents that would really help my understanding:
I'm guessing you've read the overview whitepaper. No official spec exists yet. > > I was wondering if there exists a document that sets out the language > design goals and the connection between each feature and the goals it > supports? In my mind's eye, I picture a table of goals along one axis, > and features on the other, with entries filled in where a given > feature helps or hinders a given goal. Does this document exist? If > not, would it be helpful if it did? Such a document doesn't exist. I have been thinking that something like this should be written to help people understand how the individual features fit together to make the whole language work. I'll take a crack at this. > > Also, sometimes a feature can, in combination with some other language > feature, create undesirable interactions. Again, in my mind's eye, I > picture a table with all of the features in each axis, and the entries > describe how each pair of features either reinforce, interfere with, > or have no effect on each other. Does such a document exist? And would > it be helpful if it did? Good idea too. The reference implementation is a kind of empirical version of this. But I agree, an abstract presentation would give a nice overview of what we, as the designers, believe to be true about the feature interactions. Jd > Thank you, > > - David > > > PS: Is there a list of the original committee members anywhere? I > haven't run across that. > _______________________________________________ > Es4-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
