RE: ES3.1 Draft: 24 June 2008 version available

2008-06-27 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
So far, we've been trying to primarily track changes relative to the original ES3 spec. and that is how we intend to release next week's version. However, we can probably create you a version that shows the delta's relative to the June 11 version if that would be helpful. I think after next

RE: ES3.1 Draft: 24 June 2008 version available

2008-06-27 Thread Pratap Lakshman (VJ#SDK)
Lars, The revision history that I am maintaining at the end of the document is the closest to a change log at the moment; it calls out the changes made between the 11 June draft and this one. Just as a heads-up you should expect to see more changes between now and the next draft that we hope

RE: Subset relation (was: RE: ES3.1 Draft: 11 June 2008 version available)

2008-06-27 Thread Pratap Lakshman (VJ#SDK)
Since we are discussing 'with' in particular - it may be difficult to tighten spec language to fix 'with', but I do believe that if there is some way in which we can deprecate/ban 'with' we should consider it. For e.g. 'with' interacts with other language features in surprising ways. Consider

Fwd: Side-effects of some Array methods ...

2008-06-27 Thread Garrett Smith
Back to list - On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 2008, at 6:51 AM, Pratap Lakshman (VJ#SDK) wrote: The side effect is as follows: if this does not have a length property, it ends up getting one; if this does have a length property, but is not

Fwd: Side-effects of some Array methods ...

2008-06-27 Thread Garrett Smith
to list - On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Garrett Smith wrote: A program that called pop() on an object w/no length would know right away if it failed. Why do you say that? I worded that very poorly. It was in response

early reporting of malformed regex literals

2008-06-27 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
In your comments on the June 11, ES3.1 draft you said: p22 7.8. Unacceptable change: The requirement to signal regular expression syntax errors at scanning time breaks existing programs. (The justification (since the arguments are the same every tine[sic], ... appears to have no bearing on

Re: Side-effects of some Array methods ...

2008-06-27 Thread Brendan Eich
On Jun 27, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Garrett Smith wrote: to list - I am not the one replying to sender only -- all of my replies to you have cc'ed the list. You have replied twice to me only, then resent as reply-alls. What mailer are you using? Again, we don't know what failing faster (you

Re: Side-effects of some Array methods ...

2008-06-27 Thread Garrett Smith
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Brendan Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Garrett Smith wrote: to list - I am not the one replying to sender only -- all of my replies to you have cc'ed the list. I know. I had a mistake and hit 'Reply'. Then, realizing that, I put

Re: Side-effects of some Array methods ...

2008-06-27 Thread Brendan Eich
On Jun 27, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Garrett Smith wrote: What is a green-field design exercise? Sorry for the confusing phrase -- I should have written it's not a clean-slate design opportunity. /be ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org