Implement ES6 classes including: - class declaration syntax
- enchancements to objects literal syntax - ‘super’ keyword and Function.prototype.toMethod The implementation will proceed in V8 under --harmony-classes flag. Owners: Adam Klein ([email protected]), Erik Arvidsson ([email protected]), Dmitry Lomov ([email protected]) # TC39 acceptance Classes (in the form of compromise “maximally-minimal” classes) has been a part of ES6 for more than a year now. The complete spec has been in ES6 specification draft for quite a while. At a July 2014 TC39 meeting some significant changes to instantiation semantics for classes were proposed, so the specification may still change in certain aspects. However implementation of classes is a significant effort for V8, and critically important for Javascript community. It is critical that TC39 receives deep implementation feedback on the feature earlier than later. To mitigate spec changes impact, two of the owners (Erik & Dmitry) are directly involved with ‘instantiation reform’ proposal on TC39. Therefore we believe now is the right time to proceed with ES6 classes’ implementation. # Interest from other vendors None of browser vendors currently ship ES6 classes, even though both Firefox and IE stated the intent of doing so. # Technical considerations Design document: https://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/document/d/1UaIt5SeiM-DI8tSOhtM39eSOpjkDiv2UxP9eFK35Rno/ Cheers, Adam, Erik, Dmitry -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
