Re: Promise.cast and Promise.resolve

2014-02-15 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:50 PM, C. Scott Ananian ecmascr...@cscott.net wrote: Since both Chrome and FIrefox have plans to support Promises, feel free to suggest any changes to `es6-shim` which would improve compatibility. It looks like that at the moment the `es6-shim` implementation is

Re: `String.prototype.symbolAt()` (improved `String.prototype.charAt()`)

2014-02-15 Thread Brendan Eich
Aside: ECMASpeak is neither accurate (we don't work for Ecma, it's JS not ES :-P), nor euphonious. But here's a pointer: C. Scott Ananian wrote: new string object. new string primitive, because string object (especially with new in front) suggests new String('hi'). /be

Re: `String.prototype.symbolAt()` (improved `String.prototype.charAt()`)

2014-02-15 Thread Mathias Bynens
On 14 Feb 2014, at 19:59, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com wrote: It's a really high bar to get over that closed gate. Unless the exclusion of a feature was a mistake […] I don't think we should be talking about adding it to ES6. It does feel like a mistake to me to introduce

Re: `String.prototype.symbolAt()` (improved `String.prototype.charAt()`)

2014-02-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Feb 15, 2014 9:13 AM, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote: Aside: ECMASpeak is neither accurate (we don't work for Ecma, it's JS not ES :-P), nor euphonious. I'm learning all sorts of things! I guess there are two names here; what's your preferred phrase for the language used to write