On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglaz...@google.com> wrote:
> Folks, > > Many specs nowadays opt for a more imperative method of expressing > normative requirements, and using algorithms. For example, both HTML and > DOM spec do the "run following steps" list that looks a lot like > pseudocode, and the Web components specs use their own flavor of > prose-pseudo-code. > > I wonder if it would be good the pseudo-code would actually be ES6, with > comments where needed? > > I noticed that the CSS Color Module Level 4 actually does this, and it > seems pretty nice: > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-color/#dom-rgbcolor-rgbcolorcolor > > WDYT? > I love the idea of specifying algorithms in something other than English. But I'm afraid that ECMAScript is not a good language for this purpose, for the same reasons Boris cites in his response (which arrived as I was typing this). - Adam
