Allen,
The host vs. native distinction has long bothered me as well. Thanks
for a particularly lucid explanation. In the next edition of the spec,
perhaps you could go further and eliminate the use of the word host
altogether, leaving you with only native objects and non-native objects.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM, David Flanagan da...@davidflanagan.comwrote:
Allen,
The host vs. native distinction has long bothered me as well. Thanks for a
particularly lucid explanation. In the next edition of the spec, perhaps
you could go further and eliminate the use of the word
On 7/22/10, Mark S. Miller erig...@google.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM, David Flanagan
da...@davidflanagan.comwrote:
Allen,
The host vs. native distinction has long bothered me as well. Thanks for
a
particularly lucid explanation. In the next edition of the spec, perhaps
Hi--
I was reading about the proposed shorter function syntax on the wiki
and want to comment on it.
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:shorter_function_syntax
I do not see how it is advantageous to using a special symbol, '#'.
Taking the example.
[0, 1, 2, 3].map( #(x) {x *
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Trans transf...@gmail.com wrote:
[0, 1, 2, 3].map( f(x) {x * x} )
[0, 1, 2, 3].map( fn(x) {x * x} )
[0, 1, 2, 3].map( y(x) {x * x} )
Any of these seem a much nicer choice than '#', IMHO.
While I agree on principle, the real challenge here is to find syntax
I believe # has the advantage of not being a valid character in an
identifier so there won't be any backwards compatibility problems with
existing code.
Your suggestions are legal identifiers so it makes the job of the parser
harder. The parser would have to look further ahead to be able to tell
On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Oliver Hunt wrote:
[Good point about LL(∞) snipped.]
* To give you an idea of how important parsing is, the 280 North folk once
told me that parsing made up 25% of the load time for 280 Slides.
Ollie,
Currently with a multiline regexp there is no way to ensure the regexp
starts at the start of input (\A). This means the regexp engine always will
iterate over the rest of the test string, which is detrimental to execution
of the regexp, and if you need to validate the match as starting at the
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