Dare I say ecma-speak? (Maybe I got stockholm-syndrome?)
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Adam Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <[email protected]> > 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 -- erik
