Re: I'm confused about the design constraints on ES4

2007-11-10 Thread Brendan Eich
On Nov 10, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Mark Miller wrote: * To prevent these new keywords breaking ES3 compatibility, these keywords are only recognized when a version attribute on the script tag says the script is in ES4. This has happened before, FYI -- from ES1-3 under various vendor

Re: I'm confused about the design constraints on ES4

2007-11-10 Thread Mark Miller
On Nov 10, 2007 9:10 PM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Mark Miller wrote: [out of order] * The intersection of ES3 and ES4 must be approximately as pleasant a programming language as ES3 currently is. No, the intersection is ES3 + reality + two (known)

Re: I'm confused about the design constraints on ES4

2007-11-10 Thread Brendan Eich
On Nov 10, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: On Nov 10, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Mark Miller wrote: I'm using with here only as an example, to try to understand the nature of the compatibility constraints on the ES4 process. Compatibility imposes footprint costs, but it also creates a