Re: Could we add the missing Regexp features from perl?

2016-06-17 Thread Sebastian Zartner
There are already a few regexp features in the pipeline, see https://github.com/goyakin/es-regexp (listed in the Stage 0 proposals at https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/stage-0-proposals.md). The list of proposed features is not complete yet[1], though they already cover some main

Re: Has there been any discussions around standardizing socket or file io usage?

2016-06-17 Thread Bob Myers
How does WebSockets fit into this? ___ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss

Re: ES7 - the standard

2016-06-17 Thread Leo Balter
There are some other changes, like the removal of Proxy trap and Reflect method for enumerate, includes is also a new method for TypedArrays, as it is different than Array#includes as it validates `this` as a valid typedArray instance. ECMAScript code is now expressed using Unicode 8.0.0 or later

Could we add the missing Regexp features from perl?

2016-06-17 Thread Brian Jemilo II
Javascript regexp is based on a subset of perl's regexp engine, but its missing a lot of features that would make javascript more powerful. Wondering if we can put it into spec to add the missing features. Regexp is very powerful and currently, Javascript is being held by by the missing features.

Re: Has there been any discussions around standardizing socket or file io usage?

2016-06-17 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 6/17/16 10:35 AM, David Bruant wrote: Specifically, even if there was a standard why would Node or browser makers implement it given they already have an API for the job and lots of code is already written on top of these APIs? The other issue, of course, is that Node and browsers have very

Re: Has there been any discussions around standardizing socket or file io usage?

2016-06-17 Thread David Bruant
Hi Kris, Le 17/06/2016 06:44, Kris Siegel a écrit : I didn't see this in the archives but I was curious if any consideration has been given for standardizing on features more commonly found in most other language's standard library. For example reading and writing to sockets in JavaScript

Re: ES7 - the standard

2016-06-17 Thread Thaddee Tyl
(Small typo, the path was changed to , since that is the direction we go for naming.) ___ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss

Re: ES7 - the standard

2016-06-17 Thread Thaddee Tyl
> Could the spec next time have a non-normative section with the main changes I agree with Peter. For the purpose of being helpful, I tried making a page related to the changes: , so that it can be linked to. As far as I know, there is only

Re: ES7 - the standard

2016-06-17 Thread Peter van der Zee
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:54 PM, Raul-Sebastian Mihăilă wrote: > I see that es7 is now a standard. > http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/index.html Nice, thanks for the heads up. Could the spec next time have a non-normative section with the main changes