OK, let's try to wrap up this issues.
In addition to adding RegularExpressionLiteral to Literal, do we also agree to
delete the third paragraph of section 7 that says:
Note that contexts exist in the syntactic grammar where both a division and a
RegularExpressionLiteral are permitted by the
Waldemar Horwat wrote:
David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
I'll repeat my argument here for convenience:
A DivisionPunctuator must be preceded by an expression.
A RegularExpressionLiteral is itself an expression.
(This assumes that the omission of RegularExpressionLiteral from
Literal is a
On Mar 23, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
Pratap came up with an issue in reviewing the ES3.1 draft that I
don’t have a good answer to:
Sections 7 and 5.1.2 mention InputElementDiv and InputElementRegExp.
7 There are two goal symbols for the lexical grammar. The
=/ was my typo, it's not in the specification.
But see below:
From: Brendan Eich [mailto:bren...@mozilla.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:57 AM
...
If you make the /= correction, there is no ambiguity. 7.1 last paragraph:
Note that contexts exist in the syntactic grammar where both a
On Mar 23, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
I don't think so, although perhaps the fix is as easy as adding
RegularExpressionLiteral as an alternative RHS for PrimaryExpression.
Oh sure -- that is the missing link. Thanks!
/be
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Brendan Eich wrote:
[...]
If you make the /= correction, there is no ambiguity.
Indeed there is no ambiguity; I think Allen's point is that the spec
is currently written in a way that is very unhelpful in allowing one to
conclude that.
7.1 last paragraph:
Note that contexts exist in the
Brendan Eich wrote:
On Mar 23, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
I don't think so, although perhaps the fix is as easy as adding
RegularExpressionLiteral as an alternative RHS for PrimaryExpression.
Oh sure -- that is the missing link. Thanks!
It should be Literal, not
David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
I'll repeat my argument here for convenience:
A DivisionPunctuator must be preceded by an expression.
A RegularExpressionLiteral is itself an expression.
(This assumes that the omission of RegularExpressionLiteral from
Literal is a bug.)
Therefore, for there
On Mar 23, 2009, at 4:27 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
Brendan Eich wrote:
On Mar 23, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
I don't think so, although perhaps the fix is as easy as adding
RegularExpressionLiteral as an alternative RHS for
PrimaryExpression.
Oh sure -- that is the
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From: es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org [mailto:es-discuss-
boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Brendan Eich
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:39 PM
It should be Literal, not PrimaryExpression. There is no technical
difference (since Literal is only used as one of the
On Mar 23, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
-Original Message-
From: es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org [mailto:es-discuss-
boun...@mozilla.org] On Behalf Of Brendan Eich
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:39 PM
It should be Literal, not PrimaryExpression. There is no technical
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