At today's ES 3.1 conference call (see
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=meetings:minutes_jun_24_2008) we agreed
to use the term "Flexible" for the property attribute that we recently had been
calling "Dynamic" and which subsumes the DontDelete attribute.
From: Allen Wirfs-Brock
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:37 AM
To: Lars Hansen; Mark S. Miller
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-discuss
Subject: "dynamic" attribute nomenclature
In Lars's feedback on the the June 11, ES3.1 draft he said:
p26 8.6.1. (And throughout the spec) The meaning of "dynamic" in ES4
is something else (it means a non-fixture property). It would
probably reduce confusion if the property name Deletable were used
here, as I though we had agreed previously.
Dynamic as currently used in ES3.1 means more than just Deletable, it also
means that the property attributes (including the Dynamic attribute) can be
modified and that it can be transformed between being a data and procedural
property. Hence, the name Deletable seems to imply something too narrow.
Playing around with the thesaurus, the best "positive, active term that I could
find that seems to be a reasonable description of this semantics is:
Alterable
(other, perhaps less satisfy or otherwise unacceptable alternatives include:
changeable, mutable, modifiable, flexible, amendable)
Note this would mean that data properties would expose properties named
Writable and Alterable. My sense is that there is enough conceptual distance
between those terms that there won't be too much confusion.
Thoughts??
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