On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > annotations, packages what else? >
We dont know precisely, but Brendan Eich is telegraphing that it is big steps backwards by saying the following: 1. Focus work on ES3.1 with full collaboration of all parties, and target two interoperable implementations by early next year. 2. Collaborate on the next step beyond ES3.1, which will include syntactic extensions but which will be more modest than ES4 in both semantic and syntactic innovation. 3. Some ES4 proposals have been deemed unsound for the Web, and are off the table for good: packages, namespaces and early binding. This conclusion is key to Harmony. 4. Other goals and ideas from ES4 are being rephrased to keep consensus in the committee; these include a notion of classes based on existing ES3 concepts combined with proposed ES3.1 extensions. To me #4 the idea that classes work "the old way" is also a big deal, though exactly what that means I am not entirely sure. AS3 changed its class model in what I think was a good way. I'd hate to go back. Hank
