Re: new since ActionScript 3.0 lecture notes

2008-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as i was saying before [ctrl + v, enter] turned into [ctrl + enter] (maybe ctrl+enter is a bad thunderbird shortcut?) == my lecture notes are here: http://moock.org/lectures/newInECMAScript4 they are nearly entirely based on the overview at: http://www.ecmascript.org/es4/spec/overview.pdf

Re: new since ActionScript 3.0 lecture notes

2008-02-13 Thread Brendan Eich
On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Peter Hall wrote: - Union types are spelled (x|y|z) now, not (x,y,z). Popularity contest, the pipe character won. Didn't notice that change! (and I like it :)) Popularity, but deeper reasons include (a) more future-proof; (b) precedent from other PLs.

Re: new since ActionScript 3.0 lecture notes

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Hall
From the discussions that I can recall, I thought it was to permit more complex type combinations, adding intersection types using . (which is why I like the change). Peter On Feb 13, 2008 11:48 PM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Peter Hall wrote: -

Re: new since ActionScript 3.0 lecture notes

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Hall
- Union types are spelled (x|y|z) now, not (x,y,z). Popularity contest, the pipe character won. Didn't notice that change! (and I like it :)) Peter ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org

Re: new since ActionScript 3.0 lecture notes

2008-02-13 Thread Brendan Eich
On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Peter Hall wrote: From the discussions that I can recall, I thought it was to permit more complex type combinations, adding intersection types using . (which is why I like the change). That was one meaning of future-proof, yeah. Another was to avoid overloading

New RI build available

2008-02-13 Thread Graydon Hoare
Hi, Dave Herman has prepared some new binary builds of the the ES4 RI and made them available for download at: http://www.ecmascript.org/download.php Please report any bugs you find in this release with the ES4 bug tracking system, and we'll endeavor to fix them: