Re: More flexibility in the ECMAScript part? (was: Re: Futures (was: Request for JSON-LD API review))

2013-04-20 Thread Brendan Eich
Ecma does official HTML now. /be Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: unofficial HTML version for everything. ___ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss

More flexibility in the ECMAScript part? (was: Re: Futures (was: Request for JSON-LD API review))

2013-04-17 Thread David Bruant
[es-discuss only fork] Hi, I'm forking this as I feel it surfaces an issue which I analyse as being rooted in the ECMAScript organization. As I describe my opinion below, please feel free to tell me I'm wrong in my analysis. I'm sorry this is not a technical discussion, but I nonetheless

Re: More flexibility in the ECMAScript part? (was: Re: Futures (was: Request for JSON-LD API review))

2013-04-17 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:28 AM, David Bruant bruan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also going to ask a pretty violent question, but: does it still need to be spec'ed by ECMA? The only argument I've heard in favor of staying at ECMA is that some people still find ISO standardization and Word/PDF

Re: More flexibility in the ECMAScript part? (was: Re: Futures (was: Request for JSON-LD API review))

2013-04-17 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
On Apr 17, 2013, at 10:28 AM, David Bruant wrote: ... Although promises were planned for ES7, they weren't part of any formal spec. As far as I know, no recent TC39 meetings even mentioned the concurrency strawman [2]. i don't think the mention observation is totally correct. More

Re: More flexibility in the ECMAScript part? (was: Re: Futures (was: Request for JSON-LD API review))

2013-04-17 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
On Apr 17, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:28 AM, David Bruant bruan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also going to ask a pretty violent question, but: does it still need to be spec'ed by ECMA? The only argument I've heard in favor of staying at ECMA is that some

Re: More flexibility in the ECMAScript part? (was: Re: Futures (was: Request for JSON-LD API review))

2013-04-17 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.com wrote: Note that there is an official HTML version http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/ Thanks! This apparently has bad google-juice, and is not linked prominently in the first couple results that I look at